Aaron Carapella, a self-taught mapmaker in Warner, Okla., has designed a map of Native American tribes showing their locations before first contact with Europeans. Updated May 5, 2021 at 11:08 AM ET ...

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WANG: Carapella shows me one of his maps of Native American tribes inside his ranch house. As a teenager, he says he could never find a map like this, depicting more than 600 tribes - many now ...

Aaron Carapella couldn't find a map showing the original names and locations of Native American tribes as they existed before contact with Europeans. That's why the Oklahoma man designed his own map.