maps dept: north transatlantic nations

17.IV.1430

This map, with modern borders superimposed, is not very accurate. E.g., It uses the popular not native names of the tribes , eg, Mohawk instead of Kanienkehaka.

The map is echoed here because its subject is interesting and because of its scope.

location of the map: http://www.aaanativearts.com/Native_American_map.jpg
from this website: .

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self-similarity in geography

09.iI.1430

There is an unmistakable degree of self similarity where every sea, every subcontinental outcrop or indentation finds its form repeated in relative miniature somewhere inside and or near it, and someimes also far from it as if reflected about some axis.

And with the formal replica in miniature there are also political replicas to the regionally larger political or ethnolinguistic structure.

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