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Join us to recover the Indigenous placenames of the Northeast. Using a range of historic sources, you will find, locate and position the names used by the Haudenosaunee and other Indigenous nations to denote the villages, towns, and significant places of their human geography.
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TreatiedSpacesAbout Mapscapes: Revealing Indigenous Placenames in the American Northeast
This project seeks to put Indigenous place names back on the map. When we look at the Northeast, we see familiar places: New York, Philadelphia, Syracuse, Rome, Lancaster, York. All of these names are imports: New York designated the dominion given to the Duke of York, others recalled the powerful ruling families of England, or were echoes of the classical world. Yet beneath these names sites an older and very different cultural landscape. Some Indigenous place names survive: Oneonta, Chittenango, Canandaigua. But much more of this landscape and its names have been reinscribed. Help us to recover it. This exciting project will create an different kind of map of North-Eastern North America.