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stopdiggin

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16. this is a great resource
Sat Oct 22, 2022, 10:44 AM
Oct 2022

with a couple of caveats (not at all intended to discredit)

1) a 'time lapse' element would be hugely instructive - in that these peoples, and the areas inhabited, were the farthest thing from static. Shifting, ebb and flow (and the rise and fall of culture, and empire) are the natural order.
and 2) land or territory 'belonged' to a particular group, and a particular point in time, only in the sense that they 'inhabited' said area, and were reasonable effective in fending off encroachment by competitors.

(I'm speaking largely of amer/indian culture, with which I'm most familiar - but would suggest that the same forces and dynamics hold true pretty much around the globe.)

It is no defense of western colonialism (and terror) to point out that depredation of the 'other' was not something unique or unknown ... (turn an eye toward some of the bloody practices, and territorial avarice, subjugation, in central/south America)

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Fantastic!! Leghorn21 Oct 2022 #1
Thank you for sharing this fascinating information. Bookmarrking. niyad Oct 2022 #2
I live in Mohican and Schaghticoke country nuxvomica Oct 2022 #3
Very interesting..and educational.. mountain grammy Oct 2022 #4
The map is interesting, but needs a wnylib Oct 2022 #5
If you view the map on their site, there is a pop-up disclaimer/explanation: sl8 Oct 2022 #7
Thanks. Then it will grow, I hope, as more names are added. wnylib Oct 2022 #8
Most of those are there but you have to zoom in. Cobalt Violet Oct 2022 #9
I did zoom in. Which of the missing ones that I mentioned wnylib Oct 2022 #10
All of them. Cobalt Violet Oct 2022 #14
Oops. Originally, I looked at the map wnylib Oct 2022 #15
This is Wabanaki land I'm sitting on. paleotn Oct 2022 #6
According to kids kidnapped and who wrote about it later, they were kidnapped mainly by Karadeniz Oct 2022 #11
Pima is wrong. These are the o'Odham. After teaching there two years, they hate Pima AZLD4Candidate Oct 2022 #12
I think that's true for nearly all tribal names. wnylib Oct 2022 #17
My mother is full blooded Haudenosaunee AZLD4Candidate Oct 2022 #19
Which tribe? wnylib Oct 2022 #21
Western NY. Tuscarora and Mohawk AZLD4Candidate Oct 2022 #22
Just wondered when you said that she was "full blooded" Haudenosaunee. wnylib Oct 2022 #24
I know. She says Tuscarora and Mohawk. I got used to saying it that way to my Tohono AZLD4Candidate Oct 2022 #25
See my edit in my last post regarding tribal membership. wnylib Oct 2022 #26
Just amazing information and the effort it took/takes to put together. Deuxcents Oct 2022 #13
this is a great resource stopdiggin Oct 2022 #16
Good suggestion for the reasons you gave. wnylib Oct 2022 #18
yes. again, and again. stopdiggin Oct 2022 #20
And yet, there were European Americans wnylib Oct 2022 #23
the Supreme Court actually sided stopdiggin Oct 2022 #27
Yes, that was the SC ruling. wnylib Oct 2022 #28
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