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elleng

(136,220 posts) Tue Oct 13, 2020, 11:52 AM Oct 2020

This Tribal Map of America Shows Whose Land You're Actually Living On.

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This Tribal Map of America Shows Whose Land You're Actually Living On. (Original Post) elleng Oct 2020 OP

Their link isn't working but will check back underpants Oct 2020 #1

Daughter and I are living in Caddo land at the moment. Laelth Oct 2020 #2

Pretty cool, but it doesn't name the area where I'm living... MoonchildCA Oct 2020 #3

The Chumash are so cool! I loved reading all about them during a visit to SLO. soothsayer Oct 2020 #5

"Rough and overlapping boundaries" -- don't forget "fluid". eppur_se_muova Oct 2020 #4

Very cool. Link to source: klook Oct 2020 #6

Tribal Map. Bookmark. Thanks for this. ❤ nt littlemissmartypants Oct 2020 #7

Cool. I'm in Cuttatawomen land. scipan Oct 2020 #8

This is interesting. They were forced to merge scipan Oct 2020 #9

underpants

(186,745 posts)

1. Their link isn't working but will check back

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2020, 11:59 AM

Oct 2020

Fascinating

Laelth

(32,017 posts)

2. Daughter and I are living in Caddo land at the moment.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2020, 12:04 PM

Oct 2020

We used to live in Muscogee land. By comparison, I think that the Caddo drew the short straw.

-Laelth

MoonchildCA

(1,344 posts)

3. Pretty cool, but it doesn't name the area where I'm living...

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2020, 12:04 PM

Oct 2020

the Chumash region.

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)

5. The Chumash are so cool! I loved reading all about them during a visit to SLO.

Reply to MoonchildCA (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 13, 2020, 12:26 PM

Oct 2020

Casino, not as friendly (to my stake anyway!).

eppur_se_muova

(37,468 posts)

4. "Rough and overlapping boundaries" -- don't forget "fluid".

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2020, 12:12 PM

Oct 2020

No reason to believe that NA 'boundaries' didn't shift around like those on other continents. Maps normally show a moment in time, not a history.

klook

(12,892 posts)

6. Very cool. Link to source:

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2020, 01:20 PM

Oct 2020

https://native-land.ca/

Fantastic find - thanks! Guess I need to read Popular Mechanics more often!

littlemissmartypants

(25,546 posts)

7. Tribal Map. Bookmark. Thanks for this. ❤ nt

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Tue Oct 13, 2020, 02:59 PM

Oct 2020

scipan

(2,636 posts)

8. Cool. I'm in Cuttatawomen land.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2020, 06:13 PM

Oct 2020

Never heard of them, or a lot of the others.

This is northern Virginia.

scipan

(2,636 posts)

9. This is interesting. They were forced to merge

Reply to scipan (Reply #8)

Tue Oct 13, 2020, 06:40 PM

Oct 2020

with the Wicocomico, then

The grandson of King Machywap Taptico (who was originally considered a friend of John Smith) was forced to sell the last remaining piece of Wicacoan-owned land following the Battle of the Wilderness fought there, because the ground was so littered with bodies. Being a massive "burial", the ground could no longer be cultivated. The splintered tribe (some which joined the Powhatan Confederacy, the rest integrated) was rendered functionally extinct and soon disappeared from the historical record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicocomico

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