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circa 1607: Jamestown area Native American groups
Two Google Earth file from files to use:
- The main file, created by the Virginia Center for Digital History, Virtual Jamestown Project: indian_groups.kmz
- An accompanying file, for the purposes of putting the historical data in an instructional context, created by Tom Hammond, 2012: Jamestown supplemental material.kmz
Description:
- Jamestown viewed from "inside the longhouse" -- rather than view the English settlement in a vacuum, this overlay shows the inverse: the Native American settlements in the region. For the English, it was a New World; for the Chesapeake-area residents, it was a familiar territory.
- For more information about the file, see www.virtualjamestown.org/ge_indian_groups.html
- Accompanying documents and data, including the 1608 map by John Smith, and locations for the archaeological Jamestown and a reconstructed Fort Raleigh at Roanoke. This file can both re-create and subvert the "settlement in a vacuum" understanding presented in many textbooks. For more context, look up the White map (1585) or Zuniga map (1607).
For more information about the Virtual Jamestown project, including other geospatial displays of the area, see www.virtualjamestown.org/page2.html
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