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.
Obviously this is 2015 AD meaning as 2015 years After Diogenes which is closer to 1500 CE or Century of Erasmus.
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.
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?
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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.
This is by far the largest settler colony and one of the largest real, actual genocides conducted in human history. Not fake like the ones West invents about others.
Which made up genocides would those be?
The ones in China, Russia, North Korea and whoever is the enemy of USA. Ironically, USA has been part in most genocides ever committed, some done by themselves and none that they actually discovered via authentic journalistic investigations.
Okay let's break this down into the three unrelated parts:
Which genocides? Sounds to me like you know that the genocides you're referring to actually have huge amounts of evidence, so you're intentionally avoiding saying which specifically to avoid scrutiny.
Most genocides ever committed? The country has only existed since 1776, and humans have been committing genocide for a hell of a lot longer than that.
none that they actually discovered via authentic journalistic investigations
What the hell is that meant to mean? Who is "they"? None of what? What makes a journalist's investigation "authentic"?
I am not interested in western pseudo-intellectual hipsters that like to dance around morals and authenticity.
Nonono, you've passed the point of getting off that ride.
What's happened here is you came in spouting absolute bullshit with nothing to back it up. Then you got called out for it by this "hipster", and realising that, you're trying to back out by pretending you never wanted to have this conversation in the first place.
Now you're doing the internet equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and yelling LALALA to convince yourself you're right, and that you're not giving your government a free pass to commit genocide, it's just those damn westerners trying to "make you have morals" and "form sentences that actually mean something".
To be fair more people died from the diseases brought by the settlers.
Apparently that is false. While disease did kill some, as well as early settlers, the rest was actual murder.
Unless you could link a credible source it's hard to accept this as anything more than a mere opinion
https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states
You can start the journey of learning the truth here. There are lots of sources of info ( if you ignore Canada/ USAs own accounts in some instances because of whitewashing history) . Also the churches reporting many died of germs from early settlers is a fake after take, because in that era they had no concept of germ theory, that discovery came later.
You mean the diseases they intentionally spread as part of their settler colonialist genocide?
There's very less evidence to support that. I can only recall one incident where a blanket infected with small pox was handed out to a tribe and the officer who did that was later severely reprimanded.
But anyhow, I am not trying to downplay the ill intent of European settlers, I will just quote this here "history is written by victors". The blanket incident is all I recall about deliberate disease spreading. who really knows? How many hundreds of such incidents went unreported?
I took a course about it back in high school, they literally wrote about how they were going to spread infected blankets to wipe out the indigenous population. But you're white so that means your genocide denying hipfires are more accurate than actually educated facts on the matter, so excuse me for thinking I knew what I was talking about.
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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