Native American Culture

Brant, Joseph (Thayendanegea). Drawing (¾ length) from painting by Romney, 1774. Getting gold from the rivers]. Engraving in Theodore de Bry, India Occidentales, 1591, after Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Washington, D.C. Dutch traders in the New Netherlands. Lithograph in Annie C. Cady, The American continent and its inhabitants before its discovery by Columbus, 1893. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC.
"It is better for the red men to die like warriors than to diminish away by inches. Now is the time to begin. If we fight like men, we may hope to enlarge our bounds." — Cornstalk, Chief of the Shawnee, July, 1776