Aaron Carapella, a Cherokee Indian and Oklahoma native, has created a map of the original 595 tribal nations of America and their areas of residencelabeled in their own languagesprior to European contact. Of those 595 tribes, 150 are without descendants and are now considered extinct due to genocide, disease, or tribe consolidation. – See more at: http://thislandpress.com/roundups/map-of-the-week-native-american-nations/#sthash.rcdks4rr.dpuf
The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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