Officially Indian: symbols that define the United States

Foreword / Colin G. Calloway

Introduction: The world's oldest enduring republic

Essays

Tupinambas of coastal Brazil, 1505

Title page of America, 1592

Allegory of America, 1662

Amerique septentrionale divisee en ses principales parties, 1696

Novi Belgii Novaque Anglia nec non partis Virginia tabula in locis emendata, 1685

Rolls's best Virginia tobacco paper, 1700s

A new map of the whole world with the trade winds according to ye latest and most exact observations, 1732

A view of the obelisk erected under liberty-tree in Boston on the rejoicings for the repeal of the Stamp Act, 1766

Liberty triumphant, or, The downfall of oppression, 1774

Vignette for Royal American magazine, 1774

Design proposal for the Great Seal of the United States, 1780

A new map of North America with the West India islands : divided according to the preliminary articles of peace, signed at Versailles, 20, Jan. 1783

Daniel Morgan U.S. Congressional Gold Medal, 1790

U.S. Diplomatic Medal for Peace and Commerce, 1792

George Washington Peace Medal, 1792

William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, 1682, 1827

Baptism of Pocahontas, 1839

Cover of historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States, 1851-57

Three-dollar gold coin, 1854-89

Fourth Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, Company E, Powhatan Troop flag, 1860-61

Hiawatha Boat centerpiece, 1871

Improved order of Red Men membership certificate, ca. 1889

Monument to 42nd New York Volunteer Infantry, "Tammany" Regiment, 1891

Four-cent Indian Hunting buffalo stamp, 1898

The continents : America, 1903-07

Indian chiefs headed by Geronimo, passing in review before President Roosevelt, Inauguration Day, 1905

Half-eagle gold coin, 1909

Dumbarton bridge indian head sculpture, 1915

World War I French Air Service Lafayette Escadrille Indian head fuselage insignia, 1917

World War I U.S. Marine Corps Indian head and star shoulder insignia, 1917-19

14-cent Hollow Horn bear stamp, 1923

President Calvin Coolidge wearing an eagle-feather headdress, 1927

President Franklin D. Roosevelt inducted into the Boy Scouts' Order of the Arrow, 1933

Indian head nickel, 1935

Pioneers in Kansas, 1935

Breaking camp during wartime, 1938

Golden Gate International Exposition poster, 1939

United States Marine Corps War memorial, 1954

MK 16 Zuni folding-fin aircraft rocket, 1957

Vice President Richard M. Nixon and former Tribal Chairman Carl Whitman Jr., 1960

Unity, 1966

AH-64 Apache helicopter, 1984

32-cent Jim Thorpe stamp, 1998

Sacagawea golden dollar, 2000

Code Talkers Recognition Act of 2008 Congressional Gold Medals, 2013

Sequoyah, 2013

Afterword / Paul Chaat Smith.