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ssss1 Charles Di Peso’s La Gran Chichimeca: The Greater Southwest (including Central Rockies and Great Basin).

ssss1 Indigenous Communities of the Greater Southwest. Abridged from Map 1-a, Native Tribes of North America, Map Series No. 13 (University of California Press).

ssss1 Tribal Communities of the Northwestern and Central Parts of the Greater Southwest.

Reproduced from “Key to Tribal Territories” in Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 11, Great Basin, ed. by Warren L. D. Azevedo (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 1986), p. ix.

ssss1 Tribal Communities of the Southern Part of the Greater Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, and Northern Mexico).

Reproduced from “Key to Tribal Territories” in Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 9, Southwest. ed. by Alfonso Ortiz (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1979).

More importantly, this is an ecological and historical zone of cultural interaction. It was here that Mesoamerican societies made commercial contact with the Indian cultures of the US Southwest. For example, in pre-contact time turquoise and buffalo hides came from Chaco Canyon to be exchanged for Macaw feathers and chocolate from Guatemala and Mesoamerica. This was where Anglos first confronted Spaniards in North America. This was the homeland of the Tejano–Mexicano conflict prior to 1845, or the area where Geronimo roamed freely between two nation states after 1850.