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Carte copiée sur celle qui a été tracée par le sauvage Ochagache et autres.
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Map/Atlas
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de, 1685-1749.
- La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de.
- Canada, Western--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles.
- Canada, Western.
- North America--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles.
- North America.
- Genre:
- Manuscript maps.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 map).
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified : producer not identified, approximately 1728; 1846]
- Summary:
- Tracing by Pierre Margry made 1846 from c.1728 manuscript map compiled for Pierre Gaultier de Varrenes, sieur de La Vérendrye, from Cree Indian sources, including Ochagach. Shows waterways in western Canada and the West (U.S.) from the northern shore of Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods, Lake Winnipeg, the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and the lower Saskatchewan and Assiniboine Rivers. Identifies portages, rapids, tribal regions, and Fort Kaministiquia. Includes 34 numbered sites apparently meant to accompany map legend (lacking).
- Notes:
- AM reference: 8F drawer Ayer MS map 186
- Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America was originally published in 2013, as American Indian Histories and Cultures. The title was changed in 2024.
- Scales differ.
- Various manuscript and printed versions of this map are discussed and reproduced in: Lewis, G. Malcom, 'Indicators of unacknowledged assimilations from Amerindian maps on Euro-American maps of North America' in Imago Mundi 38 (1986) pp. 9-22; Lewis, G. Malcom, 'Indian maps' in Judd, Carol and Arthur Ray (eds), Old trails and new directions (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980) pp. 15-16; Dahl, Edward and Conrad Heidenreich, 'French mapping of North America' in Map Collector 19 (June 1982), pp. 4-6; and Vollmar, Rainer, <em>Indianische Karten Nordamerikas (Berlin: Deitrich Reimer Verlag, 1981), pp. 52-53.
- Description based on publisher-supplied metadata (viewed January 30, 2024).
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