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American Tribes' Map Never Seen Before

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Just to have some idea on how America looked like prior to EU conquest.
Aaron Carapella, a self-taught mapmaker in Warner, Okla., has designed a map of Native American tribes showing their locations before first contact with Europeans.
Aaron Carapella, a self-taught mapmaker in Warner, Okla., has designed a showing their locations before first contact with Europeans. Hansi Lo Wang/NPR

Finding an address on a map can be taken for granted in the age of GPS and smartphones. But centuries of forced relocation, disease and genocide have made it difficult to find where many Native American tribes once lived.
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