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.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo.- Nearly 12,000 years ago, Missouri gained its first residents, Native Americans. Missouri gets its name from the Missouri Native American tribe that lived at the confluence of what… ...

The state of Missouri is celebrating its 200th birthday. But few people today know about the Missouria, the Native American tribe behind the state’s name.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...