These routes discuss trade conducted between the multitude of tribes found throughout North America. The red lines are the routes themselves while the green dots are the hubs that the routes connect, as indicated by the legend in the bottom left of the map.

Identifies and describes 150 Native American sites in thirty states. Guide book follows Route 2 from Boston, Massachusetts, to Troy, New York, covering the old Mohawk Trail, as well as the Taconic Trail.

Major Native American Trails. For thousands of years, Native Americans took to the trails in the name of the harvest, the hunt, commerce, plunder, warfare, religious fervor and celebration.

The Native Lands, National Trails Map is an interactive GIS map hosted through ESRI that serves as an educational tool and resource for understanding and navigating Ancestral Indigenous territories throughout the National Trails System (NTS).

Knowing the network of trails American pioneers traveled can help you guess where to start looking. The trail descriptions provided on these pages will assist you in understanding the routes your ancestors may have taken to find new homes and opportunities in the vast area now encompassed by the United States.