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THE BLACK HILLS: MAPS FOR THE INVESTIGATION

About the Black Hills Mapview Installations and Downloads
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ABOUT THE BLACK HILLS MAPVIEW

The Black Hills Mapvew contains 15 interactive layers that can be used to explore a) Native American tribal lands in the Dakotas; b) encroaching Anglo-American development and expansion into the Northern Plains; c) boundaries of treaties made and broken with Siouan tribes in the Dakota territory; and d) dates and locations of major conflicts between the Sioux and US troops.  Specifically,  the maps are intended to generate observations, inferences, and questions about western expansion and its impact on Native Americans of the Northern Plains.


Current data layers
available in this mapview:

Static GIS data map images from various stages of the inquiry project:
  • Black Hills Region
  • Lakota Battles
  • Major Gold Rushes
  • White Settlements
  • Military Outposts
  • Major Trails
  • Transcontinental RR
  • Lakota Cessions
  • USA Statehood
  • Rivers Combined
  • Continents
(see annotations)

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INSTALL MY WORLD TRIAL VERSION

At this stage of the grant, My World is needed in order to view the interactive map layers being designed for this unit.  MyWorld is a software that is currently being developed at Northwestern University as part of a research program in the adaptation of expert data visualization and analysis tools to support inquiry-based learning.My World is a Geographic Information System (GIS) designed specifically for use in middle school through college classrooms. 
(See http://www.worldwatcher.northwestern.edu/myworld/ )

To obtain MyWorld software:

DOWNLOAD BLACK HILLS MAPVIEW

There are two ways to download the most recent Black Hills mapview:
Download additional layers (not included in mapview)
  
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SEND US FEEDBACK

Please send us any questions, feedback, or suggestions about this mapview.  If you are a classroom teacher using this mapview, requests for additional interactive map layers will be considered.  Contact Josh Radinsky at joshuar@uic.edu.