Dominican Sisters of Peace Project Page
Detail of “Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata” by Gerardus Mercator (1569)
Land-history research for:
St. Catharine, KY
Shepherd’s Corner & Dominican Acres
Blacklick, OH
Bath, OH
Rush County, KS
European Contact
The Doctrine of Discovery at the Parcels
"Mr. Thomas Hooker & His People travelling through the Wilderness,” by unknown artist (c. 1675)
“A general map of the middle British colonies, in America,” by Lewis Evans, James Turner, and Robert Dodsley (1755)
Curated Resource List for the Dominican Sisters of Peace
There’s more
To learn more about tribal resistance to U.S. empire in the Old Northwest:
Read Peter Cozzens, Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Heroic Struggle for America's Heartland (Vintage, 2021)
For an Indigenous perspective on erasure:
Read Jean M. O’Brien, Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England (University of Minnesota Press, 2010)
For indigenous perspectives on U.S. history:
St. Catharine’s Farm today
Read Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (Yale University Press, 2023)
Read Anton Treuer, Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Revised and Expanded (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2023)
Read Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2015)
For an illustrated history of Indigenous resistance:
Read Gord Hill, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010)
To learn more about federal removal policy:
Read John P. Bowes, Land Too Good For Indians: Northern Indian Removal (Univ. Okla. Press, 2017)