Uninhabited: What We Were Taught In School

From a map entitled “Map Showing Distribution of Indian Stocks and Tribes, Between 1710-1720”, an illustration from 'A history of the United States and its people.' by Elroy McKendree Avery, Cleveland, Ohio : Burrows Brothers Company 1904 (mapmaker James Mooney). See the map listing here at the Boston Public Library’s Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center.

Note the “uninhabited” label - only used in this single area - on the vast south bank of the Kchitekw (St. Lawrence River), from the Gaspé peninsula and southwest down between Kwenitekw (Connecticut River) and Bitawbagw (Lake Champlain). This is how fiction becomes established truth…