Native People's History of United States
Comparing Cultural Geography over Modern and Antiquity Maps
Left: a map of the United States drawn by Joel Garreau’s book about the underlying nation state identities of North America drawn on the intersections of land, historical legacy and micro-economy.
Bottom right: a map of the native American tribes before colonization with nine nations overlay.
Top right map: a map of modern North American states with nine nations overlay.
I got the idea to look at the two and found were some striking similarities. Modern Dixie fits almost perfectly over the Cherokee nation. The Foundry aligns right over the Iroquois Confederacy. Quebec marks the Huron. Others were more composite, but the broader boundary lines are still there.
- Modern Quebec overlays Huron Supremacy and Inuit
- Modern New England Pequot and Mohican
- Modern Dixie aligns with Cherokee Nation
- Modern The Islands aligns with the Creek and Arawak
- Modern Breadbasket aligns with the Great Sioux Nation to the east, and the Blackfoot, - Crow, Cheyenne, Ute, Hope and Comanche from north to south on the west.
- Modern MexAmerica align the Aztec and Amasazi
- Modern Empty Quarter aligns to a patchwork of large nations, notably the Cree and Inuit to the northeast, Blackfoot Confederacy and Apache to the south and west. As noted by the author the modern empty quarter is drawn in by the mountains and large swaths of federal or native reservation land.
One may draw similar geographic and cultural overlay comparisons in Europe as well - drawing lines of a similar set of conflicts among the Assyrians, Scythians and Persians and Greek states to modern European nations, Russia, Iran and Turkey.
Not much more can be said beyond what may be interesting cursory map comparison of the regions drawn by Mr. Garreau of modern American and the native American nations. (One idea is that the contours of modern America’s mini-states took the shape of territories conquered and the dominant form of whatever the Americans filled into those newly won spaces at that time and place.) Can’t say much more before digging into the native American tribal history context, I thought there may something be of interest in this preliminary comparison.