Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods

“Americae sive novi orbis, nova description,” by Abraham Ortelius (c. 1570)

Land-history research for

Main Campus (84-06-06-100-011)
Pollinator Garden (84-06-07-100-002)
Rosary Hill (4158 N. Arms Rd.)

“A new map of the north parts of America claimed by France under ye names of Louisiana, Mississipi, Canada, and New France with ye adjoining territories of England and Spain” by Herman Moll (1720)

“Taking possession of Louisiana and the River Mississippi, in the name of Louis XIVth , by Cavalier De La Salle” by Jean-Adolphe Bocquin (c. 1860)

European Contact

The Doctrine of Discovery at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods

“Leaders of the Continental Congress. John Adams, Morris, Hamilton, Jefferson,” by Augustus Tholey (c. 1894)

Settler Colonialism

The Treaty Period

Good Faith.

“The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and in their property, rights and liberty, they never shall be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorised by Congress; but laws found in justice and humanity shall from time to time be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.”

“An ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States, North-west of the river Ohio,” passed by the Continental Congress (July 13, 1787)

“Signing of the Treaty of Greene Ville,” by Howard Chandler Christy (1945)

Protect.

“If any citizen of the United States, or any other white person or persons shall presume to settle upon the lands now relinquished by the United States, such citizen or other person shall be out of the protection of the United States; and the Indian tribe, on whose land the settlement shall be made, may drive off the settler, or punish him in such manner as they shall think fit; and . . . the United States shall be at liberty to break them up and remove and punish the settlers as they shall thing proper, and so effect that protection of the Indian lands[.]”

Treaty of Greenville with the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanoes, Otttawas, Chipewas, Potawatimes, Miamis, Eel-river, Weea’s, Kickapoosm Piankashaws, and Kaskaskias (Aug. 3, 1795)

“Third president, 1801–1809,” oil on canvas portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Mather Brown (1786)

Trespasses.

“[T]he unmarked state of our boundaries, & mutual trespasses on each others[‘] lands, for want of their being known to all our people, have at times threatened our peace. . . . You complain that people buy your lands individually, & settle or hunt on them without leave. [T]o convince you of the care we have taken to guard you against the injures and arts of interested individuals, I now give you a copy of a law[.]”

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to [Miami Leader] Owl and Others (Jan. 8, 1803)

“Major Gen’l Harrison of the U.S. Army,” by William Strickland (1813)

Disconcert.

“My children the Miamies, what disconcerts You? Have you not always received justice from the hands of your father? What is it he asks of you? Nothing but what you can spare. . . . This is the first request your new Father (President Madison) has ever made you[. I]t will be the last, he wants no more of your land[.]”

Governor William Henry Harrison at the negotiation of the Treaty of Fort Wayne (Sept. 25, 1809)

“Tecumseh,” by unknown artist (c. 1860)

Scattered.

“[U]nless every tribe unanimously combines to give a check to the ambition and avarice of the whites, they will soon conquer us apart and disunited, and we will be driven away from our native country and scattered as autumnal leaves before the wind.”

Address to the Choctaws and Chickasawas (Sept. 1811)