Wow, this map fucking sucks at describing native american regions.
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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Could you point me to where I could better learn about these regions then? No offense, I'm just actually curious now.
This one seems most accurate: https://native-land.ca/
OP's map relies a lot more on Western notions of nations and land ownership than you would have found for many indigenous tribes.
Very interesting, thank you! They also have an app which is nice.
This is an incredible map!
Nice. Very responsive on mobile too which is nice.
The First Peoples of North America definitely didn't have such sharp, well defined border lines. It's not as of they had a bunch of written treaties establishing hard borders.
This is a conceptual alternate history map of modern day North America without colonisation. It's still reasonably inaccurate of course but it's not meant to accurately portray the borders of a pre-colonised North America.
Sioux is a name given by the colonizers. It's not just the borders.
iirc its a word for enemy, IE the colonists encountered a rival tribe, and never cared to correct their mistake.
The Wikipedia says it comes from a French misspelling of an indigenous word that could be used to describe the people. So it might be a little less offensive than that, but still not great.
In English we use Norse meaning northern people, unsurprisingly it is the word originally used to describe them by people south of them. Those people now called Germans get their name from ceaser when he invaded from Italy, named by the Greeks, who in turn derive their modern name from the Romans because they called themselves Hellanes... Spain gets it's name probably because it was located near a rabbit on a Roman coin... They also named Britain of course and all of them would be the ones going to the new world and naming things there
It's weird but it's pretty common
Pretty sure North America looked different in 2015 AD.
am i missing something or is there no meme?
I think they are referring to the British settlements that led to modern America..?
The illegal immigrants in this case would be European settlers and the added text makes the meme, I think. I had to double take on this one as well.
yeah, but i just dont really understand the map. is it just a map showing where the native population lived before colonization or is there an actual joke in there?
The British Colombia part of the map is very inaccurate. Not sure about the rest. Appreciate the sentiment though.
Blatant coast Salish erasure!
I was wondering where Coast Salish was hiding.
Same for the North of Mexico
Also Sioux isn't a native name, it was given to the Lakota people and others by the French colonizers.
Haida Gwaii taking up the entire coast and interior yet isn't even in the map gave me a chuckle.
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I'm going out on a limb and say someone else picked that name for them.
You'd be correct. It's a translation of a name given to them by the Cree. They generally refer to themselves as Dene.
Why are the Hopi drawn in Texas? They were/are in current northern Arizona. Texas had Tawakoni, Wichita, Kickapoo and Comanche tribes.
Huron Supremacy? The Jason Bourne series really went off track after the 3rd movie.
https://i.imgur.com/j7GOV1F.jpeg Not all NA, but some visualization of smaller areas. Not sure why most maps want to throw in modern states when we want to look at indigenous maps.
It's interesting how these lines are still pretty accurate for cultural divisions in colonial NA. At least at at quick glance.
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