[Vigilanteman]

OO (and I) are simply pointing out that certain Indian tribes did have fixed locations and were even less "nomadic" than their white counterparts.

Examples:

1. The Pueblo lived in their cliff settlements (NE Arizona and NW New Mexico) for thousands of years.
   
2. The Mandan lived in the Knife River settlement in the Upper Missouri for at least 400 years.
   
3. The Powhattan whom John Smith and the Jamestown settlement encountered had been in the James River Valley for at least two centuries by 1607.

[WhiskeyX]

Osage Orange wrote: “Pretty sure the Chippewa’s, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi’s were pretty well known to live in the Great Lakes region for hundreds of years.....
I wouldn’t have called them nomadic.”

In my response I was very specific in referencing exactly the samee tribes Osage Orange used as his examples when I wrote: “The Chippewa’s, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi’s were nomadic....”

I and other posters had already noted there were less nomadic Amerindian cultures and civilized (meaning city dwelling) Amerindian cultures. Osange Orange and I commented specifically about the “Chippewa’s, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi’s.” So, I don’t see what the Mandan and Powhattan have to do with the “Chippewa’s, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi’s” whose nomadic habits we were discussing.