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...Atlantic seaboard from Labrador to North Carolina. Some turned south into Tennessee where they were stopped by a wave of Sioux pushing straight across the country from the southwest. From the southwest also came the Muskhogean and proto-Muskhogean peoples who trickled into the Gulf States (Choctaw, Creek, Chicksaw). From the Ozark Mountains in Missouri the Iroquois crossed the Mississippi River. Tennessee and Kentucky, split into two groups. One turned north and settled around Lakes Erie and Ontario. The other (Cherokee) kept straight ahead until they reached the North Carolina mountains. Mapmaker Bushnell thinks it almost certain that the vanguards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Migration Map | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

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