Although maps of potential value for Amerindian studies are scattered geographically throughout the division's collections, they fall by and large within a number of subject categories related to the Indians' physical, historical, and cultural environments.  Some maps overlap into more than one category, but the following themes with a list of related maps should furnish researchers with a guide to the various Indian-related materials located among the cartographic collections:

• Indian Maps, Mapping, and Geographic Knowledge
• Indian Lands, Village Sites, Tribal Range, Place Names, and Communication Routes
• Treaty Boundaries and Cessions
• Indian Territory
• Reservations and Allotments
• Indian Wars
• Ethnography, Linguistics, Distribution, and Archeology
• Historical Maps and Atlases
• Natural Resources