It always comes as a shock to me just how few native American tribes as we know them today are settled in the region they were before settlement by Europeans and expansion of the United states. Cherokee are an obvious example, being moved from the densely forested leafy green Southeast Georgia, Alabama, to present day Oklahoma. Now, this was the 1830s and hunting and gathering was still very much a vital means of acquiring food for native people. You don't have to be a botanist to understand the drastic differences in flora from Oklahoma and Arkansas. Nor do you have to be an anthropologist to comprehend how having a plains way of life thrusted on you after thousands of years of generational knowledge and heritage in a specific region would affect a people. Imagine the knowledge and spiritual connection to a place tied to the oral tradition of countless generations and then just to have that ripped away in a decade?
A lesser known example would be the A'aninin people "White Clay People," who demonstrate how a tribe may organically move from one place to another in geographic terms that would dwarf roman expansion. Seemingly able to pick up and move their entire culture with ease. Moving from Minnesota and the great lakes region to Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado!
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A lesser known example would be the A'aninin people "White Clay People," who demonstrate how a tribe may organically move from one place to another in geographic terms that would dwarf roman expansion. Seemingly able to pick up and move their entire culture with ease. Moving from Minnesota and the great lakes region to Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado!
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