Vermont and New Hampshire have exchanged places! Who knew?
The footnote about “totally removed” is a little odd because I think some/many of these states has state recognized tribes.
Which I think mostly means either the tribes just refused to ever sign a treaty with the federal government, or just kind of reassembled after the bulk of their tribe was driven off the original land.
Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, for example, all have state recognized tribes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-recognized_tribes_in_the_United_States
Which I think mostly means either the tribes just refused to ever sign a treaty with the federal government
In Georgia, it was the opposite: the Muscogee — or at least, an asshole tribal leader purporting to represent them — did sign a treaty. He got almost immediately executed for selling out his people and the legitimate leaders sent a delegation to DC to repudiate it, but it was too late and the tribe eventually lost all its land anyway.
I thought we didn’t say Indian anymore?
The Bureau of Indian Affairs still exists.
Damn. My state has the second most and I still never see any Native American people outside of TV. I’ve been to 3 of their casinos, too!
Now show me another one with number of tribes gone over the last five hundred years.
I bet the numbers are bigger but I’m too alien to prove it