Indigenous Lands
3 min readApr 5, 2022
There are 574 federally recognized Indian Nations, tribes, bands, pueblos, communities, and native villages in the United States. The photo above is a land survey of Maryland and Virginia conducted in 1673conducted over ten years. The map was drawn by the merchant, explorer, and resident Augustine Herrman. It was published in London in 1673 to provide Europeans with the most detailed information about the Mid-Atlantic region since John Smith’s detailed map…
