Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: final indian checkerboard & cross counts
Date: Mar 30, 2001 @ 23:36
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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>I've been following this quest for a while now, and not knowing a lot
>about Indian reservations and regulations concerning these, I am
>getting a bit curious about the principles you Americans (or should I
>say Yanks - just not to mean native Americans) apply when defining
>boundaries. Is it just a case of "there is a certain area of land,
>and we get half, and you get half as well, and we don't want to split
>up the area arbitrarily in a way that one people get the best half,
>and the other people the less than best half, so we do it the
>chequered way", or is there another principle applied here? Just
>enlighten me, an ignorant inhabitant of the so-called "Old
>Continent", of your unitedstatish ways.
>
>Peter S.
>
>--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., michael donner <m@d...> wrote:
>> after further experimentation & checking against state topo index
>maps
>> & also against individual topo quads
>> i can report that the zoomable indian reservation map
>> representing some great fun & timely reinforcement from arif
>> <http://www.gdsc.bia.gov/districts> http://www.gdsc.bia.gov/districts
>> may leave a bit to be desired in some respects
>> & may even raise more questions than it answers
>> but
>> it does appear to be the best available map & plaything in this
>whole field
>> & it has proved to be entirely credible in some cases at least
>> so i couldnt help but proceed to complete a first estimated indian
>cross census
>> despite my several misgivings about it
>> & am just reduced to hoping that all the data are in fact correct
>>
>>
>> the turning point in my experience of this site came when i was
>pleasantly
>> surprised to find it indicating an indian cross right here in
>connecticut
>> which i do very much want to believe is the truth
>> despite the fact that the public land system grid
>> which was the proximate cause of just about all the crosses
>> was never used in connecticut
>> & even tho this cross like many of the others is unsubstantiated
>by topo
>> evidence
>> & moreover forces me to swallow so much else along with it
>>
>>
>> before proceeding with the boundary cross census report tho
>> it may be important to note that the staggering numbers i have
>racked up
>> here are not so much the result of the checkerboard or sectional
>> alternation that is so plain to see at agua caliente & torres
>martinez
>> & which got me into this ridiculous business in the first place
>> as they are the result of the much more widespread sort of random
>> scattershot property ownership
>> which however is curiously also called checkerboard
>>
>> while crosses were found to be rampant in the many scattershot areas
>> precious little new evidence of true checkerboard patterning was
>found anywhere
>>
>> in fact the only new such finds of any consequence
>> are the arizona portion of the tristate mojave reservation
>> & part of the laguna reservation in new mexico
>>
>> some navajo areas also seem almost to break into pure checkerboard
>at times
>> but they are nowhere very coherent or convincing
>> so i have not counted them in this bunch
>>
>>
>> all of which brings the updated cross counts of the true
>checkerboard
>> tribes to the following very probably final results
>> agua caliente 57
>> torres martinez 43
>> laguna 40
>> mojave 33
>> hualapai 13
>> morongo 12
>> plus some minor cases involving a few dozen crosses in all at most
>>
>>
>> several tribes have more crosses but none are so distinctly
>checkered as these
>>
>>
>> the single peneclave with the greatest known number of crosses
>> 8 in all
>> occurs at agua caliente
>>
>>
>> another highlight
>> many of the more complex boundaries cant even be drawn in a single
>> continuous line
>> a fact which presents the philosophical question of exactly what
>they are
>> if they are not lines
>>
>> presumably some fundamentally different kind of continuums
>>
>>
>>
>> & finally the piece of resistance
>> the staggering indian cross totals
>> of all types
>> by state
>> az 47
>> ca 125
>> co 1
>> ct 1
>> mi 5
>> mn 57
>> ms 11
>> mt 73
>> nv 25
>> nm 280 approx
>> nd 20
>> or 24
>> sd 160 approx
>> ut 8
>> wa 8
>> wi 34
>> total 880 approx
>>
>>
>> the only remaining question is how to evaluate these in relation to
>the
>> bicountry crosses & the bicounty cross & the bimeridian cross
>previously
>> found
>>
>> m
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