Thursday, September 25, 2014

A self-taught mapmaker from Warner, Okla. is changing the landscape of where many thought Native American tribes once lived.According to NPR, Aaron Carapella has pinpointed the locations and original names of hundreds of American Indian nations before their first contact with Europeans.Carapella didn’t know the exact tribe locations because centuries of forced relocation, disease, and genocide...
Before the arrival of the colonists, the Native Americans had already secured a foot-hold over the vast expanses of America. Initially the Native Americans were treated with an almost cursory respect as the new settlers and pilgrims were afraid, apprehensive, yet friendly and hopeful. The newcomers befriended many and made what they thought were close ties with their new brethren. But, unfortunately,...