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Bernardo de La Paz

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5. No it's okay. I think it represents a much wider time period than that when whites contacted their bands in the 1800s.

Reply to buzzycrumbhunger (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 31, 2025, 07:31 PM

Mar 31

It does say ancestral. The tribes probably did a lot of roaming in warm and cool periods over thousands of years.

So I consider it in context and the Wikipedia maps in their narrower context. The wiki has other maps that seem to indicate some shifting westwards away from the colonists / settlers.

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First Nations leaders in northern Ontario say tariffs violate treaty rights, demand seat at table [View all] applegrove Mar 30 OP

Good for them! buzzycrumbhunger Mar 30 #1

Interesting, Wikipedia indicates a much smaller area for the Sioux (Oceti Sakowin) Bernardo de La Paz Mar 30 #2

My map was posted by a Lakota friend buzzycrumbhunger Mar 31 #4

No it's okay. I think it represents a much wider time period than that when whites contacted their bands in the 1800s. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 31 #5

Interesting and thorny concept to explore. Perhaps they have launched this kind of challenge in the past? . . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 30 #3