05 January 2013

Indigenous peoples of the North Pacific (c. 1880)


An impressive map, originally from LL Map, via fuck yeah cartography!  Look at the complexity of the California-to-Canada region:

5 comments:

  1. I am struck by the multitude of nations along the coast vs in the interior - makes the hypothesis that the original settlers moved along the coast vs came up the interior self evident

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  2. Knowing the geography of the area, it is not near as puzzling as it might seem...

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  3. Okay, check out this map...
    http://www.firstnationsseeker.ca/Level2.html

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    1. very cool. It looks like the center of that map is the Puget Sound/Vancouver area?

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