In using the “Maps of Native American Tribes in the United States” (http://www.native-languages.org/states.htm). I’m not entirely for sure who created the site, but I think it was created to foster an interest in learning about the Native tribes in one’s area, and possibly even sparking an interest for someone to research their own potential Native ancestry. I focused on the tribes of New York State and actually discovered quite a bit that I never previously realized.  I never realized that I grew up right in the heart of Mohican territory. I remember my high school history teacher specifically saying that the region we lived in really had no permanent Indian occupants, because the area was a disputed area and two larger tribes would fight over the area for control. Those larger tribes he spoke of were the Algonquin and Iroquois.  Close to where I grew up was a place called Cooper’s Cave and it was supposedly the inspiration for the cave in the book by James Fenimore Cooper, “The Last of the Mohicans”, so it really underscores just how many “realities” were interwoven into his novel.  I also never realized just how much territory the Mohawks controlled.  Looking at the New York tribal map really emphasized helped me envision a lot of the information I had picked up as a French and Indian War re-enactor.  It made me think of the Massacre at Fort William Henry, Fort Edward, Fort Ticonderoga (Carillion), and Fort St. Frederick (Crownpoint) and all of the interactions with the local natives that must have ensued in and around those places. Honestly, it kind of also started to rekindle the urge to re-enact again!