This Interactive Map Shows Which Indigenous Lands You Live On

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5. The map is interesting, but needs a

statement with it that it is not all comprehensive. There are many tribal nations not named on the map. It might be due to the great number of them making it hard to fit the print of all their names. Since some of them are well known, it doesn't seem likely due to not knowing about them.

So if people take the map at face value, they might think that there were less tribes, and therefore less people, than there actually were.

In present day NY, the Seneca, Mohawk, Cuyuga, and Oneida are missing. In Ohio, the Shawnee are missing. The Southern tribes of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Tuscarora (later moved to NY) tribes are not named. In northwestern PA, the Erie are left out. Other tribes not indicated are the Attawandaron (aka Neutral), Huron, and Petun (Great Lakes region), Pequod and Narraganset (New England), and farther west, the Navajo and Hopi. The Navajo call themselves Dene, and there is a Dene designation on the map farther north in Canada where they lived before moving into the Southwest, so their absence in the Southwest might be due to using original North American homelands. But doing that does not show the effect on them in the Southwest when European Americans moved in to settle that area. There are probably many more tribes not indicated on the map than the ones that I mentioned. I only named the ones that I know of offhand.