Tribal Nations Map

Do you need help finding the traditional Tribal names for Native Americans in your area? TribalNationsMaps.com produces the most comprehensive maps of pre-contact and at-contact Native North America to date. These maps use Tribal Nation’s original indigenous names for themselves, and show where Tribes were just before contact with outsiders, as well as the last homelands they defended . The intent of these maps is to instill pride in Native peoples and to be used as teaching tools from a Native perspective.  Created by a self-taught Native American cartographer, Aaron Carapella, the Tribal Nations Map series includes the Nations indigenous to the “United States”, “Canada”, "Mexico" , "Central America", "South America" and “Alaska."

"Look at a map of Native American territory today, and you'll see tiny islands of reservation and trust land engulfed by acres upon acres ceded by treaty or taken by force. Carapella's maps serve as a reminder that the population of the American countryside stretches back long before 1776 and 1492."

Hansi Lo Wang
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