Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!
This neat little site will tell you which peoples lived on the land before you. There are a lot; there are many more than I knew or expected.
My (shitty/little) hometown isn’t in the database yet, but it was land and neighbors for several. E lived in this same area for a while.
- Wichita
- Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo)
- Tawakoni
- Caddo
- Choctaw (just north of the state line)
E lived in Tulsa
- 𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰𐓓𐒷 𐒼𐓂𐓊𐒻 𐓆𐒻𐒿𐒷 𐓀𐒰^𐓓𐒰^(Osage)
- O-ga-xpa Ma-zhoⁿ (O-ga-xpa) (Quapaw)
- Očhéthi Šakówiŋ
- Muscogee (Oklahoma)
- Caddo
- Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo)
He also lived in Kenosha
- Peoria
- Bodwéwadmi (Potawatomi)
- Myaamia
- Očhéthi Šakówiŋ
- Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk)
- Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo)
I went to college in Miami where there were several
- Seminole
- Taíno
- Tequesta
- Miccosukee (where I volunteered one Spring Break)
- Mascogo
When we lived in Bryan:
- Tonkawa
- Sana
In Austin, there was some overlap:
- Jumanos
- Coahuiltecan
- Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ (Comanche)
- Ndé Kónitsąąíí Gokíyaa (Lipan Apache)
- Tonkawa
and now, in Denver
- Tséstho’e (Cheyenne)
- Očhéthi Šakówiŋ
- hinono’eino’ biito’owu’ (Arapaho)
- Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute)