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To: RobbyS; driftless2
The English found a significant population in the Chesapeake area, and organized un the Powhatten into a confederacy.

There were also plentiful Leni Lenape (Delaware) indians in the Philadelphia-Delaware settlements. Philadelphia's map is full of Indian names, such as Conshohocken, Wissahickon, Moyamensing, Shackamaxon, etc.

52 posted on 11/23/2012 10:16:14 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Not only no, but HELL NO we will NOT moderate our stance."-- Jim Robinson)
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To: Albion Wilde
"full of Indian names"

So is my territory----Wisconsin and the upper midwest. That doesn't mean millions of Indians lived here.

54 posted on 11/23/2012 12:19:24 PM PST by driftless2
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To: Albion Wilde

The tendency was historically to minimize their numbers. Of course, today, it is almost impossible to reconstruct the environment in which they lived, and hence the ecology that sustained them. They did not exist in great numbers but in significant numbers.


55 posted on 11/23/2012 10:01:09 PM PST by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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