The Smithsonian's "The Native Americans; The Indigenous Peopl of North America"
(printed 1992) shows the original "map" of the US (without state boundaries
and all the KNOWN tribes therein. Page 224 shows the Northeast. Page 12
shows the Southeast (I always thought of Kentucky as Southeast (by attitude,
probably), but the contours of the Atlantic seaboard didn't line up properly.
Please understand that people born and raised in California are often without
knowledge of where any of the states are beyond the Continental Divide ...
myself being one of those "ignorant Californians". IF Kentucky is where our
familiy thinks it is (not a good recommendation), much of that area is
described as "Poorly known tribes" on pg. 224. In the center of the "poorly
known area" are the Shawnee; directly below that are the Cherokee and Yuchi
and POSSIBLY "Tutelo and Neighbors; below them are the Catawba ..& "neighbors"
Hopefully, there has been a more enlightened response from an "east-coast
person" ... or maybe John Rick can tell us
lyn
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