Last time this came up it was on JMG's main blog, and I mentioned that I had one I particularly liked, but that it was at my mother's house, and I wouldn't be there again til the next holiday. Well the next holiday came, I went, found the book, took a look at it, and forgot to bring it home with me. So I suppose it'll have to wait until the next, next holiday. Except I'll be at the wife's family's for Memorial Day, so the holiday after that. It really is a good one, though.
In the meantime, Google "map of native American culture regions" and look at the images that come up, and follow the links. The Wiki article isn't bad. The alignment isn't one to one, but it's very close-- the only real thing missing is a distinct "Appalachian" native culture, but I'm wondering about that. Anthropologists looking at Native cultures tend to group the Northeast as a whole into the "Eastern Woodlands," but my guess is that distinctions would become more obvious if you were to look more closely at the individual tribes, in the same way that the distinction between Pennsylvanians and Rhode Islanders is clear as day to people from the Northeast but nonexistent to Southerners who refer to both as "Yankees."
The next thing to do, then, is to take the modern American culture regions, the Native culture regions, and cross-reference them with a third set of maps-- the ecological regions that I shared with methylethyl below.
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Date: 2023-05-24 05:40 pm (UTC)Last time this came up it was on JMG's main blog, and I mentioned that I had one I particularly liked, but that it was at my mother's house, and I wouldn't be there again til the next holiday. Well the next holiday came, I went, found the book, took a look at it, and forgot to bring it home with me. So I suppose it'll have to wait until the next, next holiday. Except I'll be at the wife's family's for Memorial Day, so the holiday after that. It really is a good one, though.
In the meantime, Google "map of native American culture regions" and look at the images that come up, and follow the links. The Wiki article isn't bad. The alignment isn't one to one, but it's very close-- the only real thing missing is a distinct "Appalachian" native culture, but I'm wondering about that. Anthropologists looking at Native cultures tend to group the Northeast as a whole into the "Eastern Woodlands," but my guess is that distinctions would become more obvious if you were to look more closely at the individual tribes, in the same way that the distinction between Pennsylvanians and Rhode Islanders is clear as day to people from the Northeast but nonexistent to Southerners who refer to both as "Yankees."
The next thing to do, then, is to take the modern American culture regions, the Native culture regions, and cross-reference them with a third set of maps-- the ecological regions that I shared with methylethyl below.