Native Land is a Google Map of the territories together with languages of the indigenous peoples of the United States of America together with Canada. The map consists of ii top dog layers, ane showing the 'territory' of First Nation together with Native American tribes together with the other showing the geographical spread of indigenous languages.
The 'About' page together with 'Teacher's Guide' both render to a greater extent than or less fascinating insights into the problems faced inward mapping the indigenous peoples of North America. The creator of this map fifty-fifty argues that maps are inherently colonial inward nature. However, despite these obvious problems, the Native Land map provides a useful require to the indigenous people's of the United States of America together with Canada together with equally good provides links to bully resources on the indigenous tribes together with languages.
Natives of North America is to a greater extent than or less other interactive map of the Native American Nations. Obviously ane of the biggest problems inward mapping Native American territories is that official boundaries betwixt the Nations did non be together with these territories were constantly shifting.
The map overcomes this past times creating largely artificial boundaries for the 500 or together with thus native peoples of North America. However the projection has been open-sourced inward the promise that others volition practise to a greater extent than fluid maps, which volition delineate of piece of occupation organisation human relationship for stimulate over fourth dimension together with for to a greater extent than fluid definitions of the boundaries betwixt the unlike Native American Nations.
The project's developer equally good hopes that the Natives of North America map volition endure improved to include links from each patch to data nearly the unlike Native American Nations.
The Invasion of America is a fascinating map of Native American province cession betwixt 1776 together with 1887. During this menses the United States of America seized over 1.5 billion acres from the Native Americans.
The map includes a timeline which allows y'all to thought how the United States grew westwards past times seizing Native American province through treaties together with executive orders. It is possible to search the map past times private Indian Nation. If y'all click on a tract on the map y'all tin uncovering out the Nation affected together with uncovering links to the related treaty together with origin map overlays.
