1930s Map of an Idealized Native American Land
"Lilawaste Lake Country Refuge-To-Be?”
Color-printed map, 1937, created by 'Iktomi', the pen-name of Ivan Drift, a part-Lakota writer, artist, and Native American activist who lived on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, in the 1930s and 40s, the map shows an idealized refuge in a lakes region, with extensive detail about areas where hunting, trapping and farming could occur, areas set aside for wild foods, sites for sham battles with different tribes, 'special novelty attractions' for visitors, and much more, printed to accompany Drift's eclectic and passionate 424 page book, "America Needs Indians!", as a loose map, printed in Denver (the book accompanies this map), on thin cream paper, with vertical and horizontal folds as issued (now flattened); some slight toning to the left and right sides of the sheet (not as noticeable as it appears in some of these images) but otherwise in very good condition
Sheet 16 x 32 1/4 inches
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