38 ms·
Wow that is one horribly incomplete map. Where are the Kansa, the Wichita, the Osage, etc
by X86BSD 9y ago
Wow that is one horribly incomplete map. Where are the Kansa, the Wichita, the Osage, etc
- hellofunk 9y agoNote that they are labelling tribes based on the names the tribes called themselves, not the names that history or non-Indians would know. Not sure that explains it in your specific question.
- X86BSD 9y agoThose are the names the tribes call themselves. Half of the midwest is named after local tribes of the area.
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoSounds like you want to help out.
- protomyth 9y agoI would hope that people who are interested in this type of thing contact the folks at the tribes about their own efforts.
- asciimo 9y agoPull request.
- mlinksva 9y agoCouple other places to help that might have wider impact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indigenous_peoples_of_North_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indigeno... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_of_the_indigenous_peoples_of_North_America https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_of_the_indi...
- schoen 9y agoKansa listed as "Hutanga (Kanza)" (in Kansas), Osage listed as "Niukonska (Osage)" (in Oklahoma), Wichita listed as "Kitikiti'sh (Wichita)" (in Texas) — all three that you mentioned are present on the map.
- X86BSD 9y agoThose are not where the tribes lived. That may be where they are now.
- schoen 9y agoI don't have the expertise to evaluate the accuracy of the geographic placements. There was a whole other part of this thread talking about the issue that the map does not pick a single point in time to represent, and therefore there will be anachronisms where different groups shown on the map never lived in the places indicated at the same time (or conceivably never existed as nations at the same time as one another!). I wouldn't be surprised if the mapmaker had a source indicating that each of those groups had lived in the place indicated during some pre-contact period. But especially without choosing a date for the map, it's tough to say what the "traditional" or "original" location should mean.