# List of Native American-themed murals

Of the four hundred New Deal murals depicting American Indian themes in the Sections program, only 24 were actually painted by American Indian artists.

## 1937

* The Story of Natural Drugs, University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, Thomas Jefferson League, oil on Masonite, 5 panels. The panels illustrate the use of indigenous Native American remedies derived from natural sources, by Spanish explorers in the New World.
* Legends of Fernandino and Gabrileno Indians (1937), North Hollywood High School, Los Angeles, California, Fletcher Martin

## Date needed

* The Jicarilla Apache Trading Post, Carlsbad, New Mexico, La Verne Nelson Black (1887–1938)
* Native Americans, University of New Mexico, Zimmerman Library, Kenneth Adams
* Father LeMoyne Trying to Convert the Indians on Pathfinders Island, Fulton, New York, Caroline S. Rohland

## Alabama

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| USPO Tuscumbia | Chief Tuscumbia Greets the Dickson Family | | Jack McMillen | 1939 | | |

## Alaska

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## Arizona

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| United States Post Office, Phoenix, Arizona | Progress of the Pioneer, the Arrival of the U.S. Mail Coach | | La Verne Nelson Black | 1937 | | 83002993 |
| United States Post Office, Phoenix, Arizona | Spanish Explorers and American Indians | | Oscar Berninghaus | 1939 | | 83002993 |

## Arkansas

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## California

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## Colorado

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## Connecticut

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## Delaware

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## District of Columbia

| Location | Mural title | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building Washington, D.C. | Dangers of the Mail | Frank Mechau | 1937 | | 66000865 |
| University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center, Chicago | The Story of Natural Drugs | Thomas Jefferson League | 1937 | The panels illustrate the use of indigenous Native American remedies derived from natural sources, by Spanish explorers in the New World. | |
| Federal Building (formerly Main Post Office Department building) | Covered Wagon Attacked by Indians | William C. Palmer | 1937 | | |

## Florida

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## Georgia

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## Hawaii

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## Idaho

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## Illinois

| Location | Mural title | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Legler Library, Chicago | Father Marquette's Winter in Chicago | Richard Fayerweather Babcock (1887 - 1954) | 1934 | | |
| Cliff Dwellers Club Chicago | Navaha | John W. Norton | 1909-1910 | oil on canvas | |
| The Rookery Building, Chicago | La Salle, 1680 | Gordon Stevenson | 1910 | oil on canvas | |
| Traders Building | Indians and Settlers at Fort Dearborn | Edgar Spier Cameron (1862-1944) | 1913-1914 | oil on canvas restored in 1986 | |
| Calumet Park Fieldhouse, Chicago | Indian Ceremony | Thomas C. Lea III | 1927-1929 | | NRHP 03000788 |
| Calumet Park Fieldhouse, Chicago | Father Marquette with Traders and Indians | Thomas C. Lea III | 1927-1929 | | NRHP 03000788 |
| Calumet Park Fieldhouse, Chicago | Hunting Party Returns to Village | Thomas C. Lea III | 1927-1929 | | NRHP 03000788 |
| Calumet Park Fieldhouse, Chicago | Indians and Fur Traders | Thomas C. Lea III | 1927-1929 | | NRHP 03000788 |
| Legler Library, Chicago | Father Marquette's Winter in Chicago | Richard Fayerweather Babcock | 1934 | murals is 11' by 18' | 86003169 |
| Morgan Park Station post office, Chicago | Father Jacques Marquette, 1674 | Theodore Johnson | 1937 | | |
| Loop Station Post Office, Chicago | Great Indian Council-1833 | Gustaf Dalstrom | 1938 | | |
| USPO Gibson City, | Hiawatha Returning with Minnehaha | Frances Foy | 1940 | | |
| USPO Herrin | George Rogers Clark Conferring With Indians Near Herrin | Gustaf Dalstrom | 1940 | | |

## Indiana

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## Iowa

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## Kansas

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## Kentucky

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## Louisiana

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## Maine

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## Maryland

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## Massachusetts

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Chestnut Hill | The Reverend John Elliot Preaching to the Indians | | William Abbott Cheever | 1941 | | |

## Michigan

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## Minnesota

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## Mississippi

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## Missouri

| Location | Mural title | Artist | Date |
| USPO Columbia | Indians Watching Stagecoach in the Distance | Edward Buk Ulreich | 1937 |
| St. Joseph | Indian Boat Race | Gustaf Dalstrom | 1941 |
| USPO St. Louis | Cycle of history of the region | Edward Millman and Mitchell Siporin | 1942 |

## Montana

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## Nebraska

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## Nevada

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## New Hampshire

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## New Jersey

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## New Mexico

| Location | Mural title | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Gallup, New Mexico McKinley County Courthouse, | The Zuni Potters | La Verne Nelson Black | 1937 | | |
| Rogers Hall New Mexico Highlands University Las Vegas | Dissemination of Education on New Mexico | Lloyd Moylan | 1937 | the mural is a fresco | NRHP |
| USPO Truth or Consequences | Indian Bear Dance | Boris Deutsch | 1938 | originally installed in Geronimo Springs post office | |

## New York

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Honeoye Falls | The Life of the Senecas | | Stuart Edie | 1942 | | |
| Scotia | The Glen Family Spared by French and Indians – 1690 | | Amy Jones | 1941 | | |

## North Carolina

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## North Dakota

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Langdon | Indians Demanding Wagon Toll | | Leo Beaulaurier | 1939 | | |

## Ohio

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## Oklahoma

| Location | Mural title | Artist | Date |
| Coalgate | Indian Family at Routine Tasks | Acee Blue Eagle | 1942 |
| USPO Hugo | The Red Man of Oklahoma Sees the First Stage Coach | Joseph Amedeus Fleck | 1937 |
| USPO Seminole | Seminole Indian Scene | Acee Blue Eagle | 1939 |

## Oregon

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## Pennsylvania

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## Puerto Rico

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## Rhode Island

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## South Carolina

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## South Dakota

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## Tennessee

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## Texas

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Caldwell | Indians Moving | | Suzanne Scheuer | 1939 | | |

## Utah

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## Vermont

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## Virgin Islands

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## Virginia

| Location | Mural title | Artist | Date | Notes |
| USPO Arlington | Captain John Smith Meets the Massawomek Indians | Auriel Bessemer | 1940 | |
| USPO Hopewell | Captain Francis Eppes Making Friends with the Appomattox Indians | Edmund Archer | 1939 | oil on canvas |
| USPO Richmond | Pocahontas Saving the Life of Captain John Smith | Paul Cadmus | 1939 | |
| Smithfield | Captain John Smith Trading with the Indians | William Abbott Cheever | 1941 | |

## Washington

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## Wisconsin

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## Wyoming

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