The
Fourth World Atlas Project at the Center for World Indigenous Studies
announced the release of its most recent published map “Exploration
& Exploitation” for use in the school grades 3-12. The map depicts
the sites and original names of more than 3900 American Indian communities
and what are referred to as Grandmother/Grandfather nations.
The
Center’s research staff carefully researched the names Indian nations
and communities gave themselves and used those names to identify different
Indian population concentrations. The distribution of Indian nation
and community locations demonstrates a pattern similar to how non-Indian
populations currently occupy the land with large concentrations in
California and the west as well as parts of the east coast. The
Grandmother/Grandfather nations depicted illustrate those that were and
are well respected by smaller communities as having powerful and
influential cultures.
“This is an historically accurate map illustrating
the many different peoples living in what is now the United States of
America in and around 1500 or 13 years before the arrival of Ponce de Leon
in Florida as the first explorer from Spain,” explained Dr. Rudolph
Ryser, the Center’s Executive Director. Published by The Exploration
Company in Arizona the map is a map of “moving history” illustrating
the original peoples of the United States, the regional claims of land by
Spain, France, and England, the notable exploration routes of Spanish
explorers as well as French and American explorers in later years. Finally
the map depicts the colonial boundaries of lands claimed by the United
Kingdom in the early 1700s.
“Our
research team here at the Center have made an important contribution to
school aged learning,” suggested Dr. Ryser. The maps are being offered
on metal pull-down hangers for use in schools throughout the continent.
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