{
  "id": "indigenous-american-nations-16th-century-2024",
  "title": "Indigenous American Nations, c.16th Century",
  "edition": "Second edition",
  "publicationDate": "2024-07-15",
  "mapmaker": "Peter Klumpenhower",
  "mapmakerIdentity": "Diné (Navajo), self-identified by the mapmaker",
  "mapType": "Contemporary interpretive reconstruction, not a primary map from the 1500s",
  "depictionPeriod": "Approximate locations of Indigenous nations around the 1500s CE, as represented by the mapmaker",
  "primaryCreatorPage": "https://indigamerica.blogspot.com/2024/07/indigenous-american-nations-c16th.html",
  "originalDownloadPage": "https://indigamerica.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html",
  "creatorReuseStatement": "The mapmaker says he releases the map and geometry he owns into the public domain. The downloads page says the files may be reproduced and modified for any purpose.",
  "license": "CC0 1.0 Universal / public-domain dedication, as stated by the creator",
  "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
  "courtesyCredit": "Peter Klumpenhower (Diné), Indigenous American Nations, c.16th Century, second edition (2024). Courtesy credit; use does not imply creator endorsement.",
  "sourceImage": "assets/indigenous-american-nations-16th-century-2024.jpg",
  "sourceImageDimensions": "8900 × 5600 pixels",
  "sourceImageBytes": 10456721,
  "sourceImageInspection": "The full-resolution JPG downloaded from the creator's published web-viewing download on 2026-10-23. Pixel content is served unchanged; the homepage viewer applies only zoom and pan transforms.",
  "inspectionDate": "2026-10-23",
  "geographicScope": "Broad North American coverage from Alaska and northern Canada through the United States and Mexico, with regional insets. It does not provide full Greenland or Panama coverage.",
  "limitations": [
    "The map is a present-day reconstruction, not a map made around 1500.",
    "Locations and territories are approximate; the mapmaker says that additional expertise could improve accuracy and completeness.",
    "Many traditional territories overlap. Simplified shapes were used for readability and do not establish fixed borders.",
    "The map is not comprehensive. A missing label or area is not evidence that Indigenous people were absent.",
    "The creator's source notes are printed on the map; this Atlas has not independently rechecked every cited work in that list.",
    "The mapmaker's public-domain dedication does not imply endorsement of this Atlas."
  ],
  "homepagePlacement": "A separate zoomable visual reference below the live region-selection map. It is not added as an archival item to the Historical Map Room and does not count toward any nation-profile source totals."
}