Northeast Woodlands

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The Northeast Woodlands is a cultural and geographic region of North America characterized by its forested environment and historically inhabited by diverse Native American peoples such as the Iroquois and Algonquian-speaking tribes.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural region
geographic region
associatedWith Iroquois Confederacy
Three Sisters agriculture
birchbark canoes
clan-based social organization
longhouse dwellings
wampum
wigwam dwellings
borderedBy Great Plains
Southeastern Woodlands
Subarctic region
characterizedBy forested environment
climate humid continental climate
continent North America
culturalAreaOf Native North America
hasBiome mixed coniferous-deciduous forest
temperate deciduous forest
hasSeason cold winters
warm summers
historicalPeriod early colonial era
pre-Columbian era
includesSubregion Great Lakes region
Mid-Atlantic region
New England
parts of southeastern Canada
inhabitedBy Abenaki
Algonquian-speaking peoples
linked to: Algonquian peoples

Haudenosaunee
Huron-Wendat
linked to: Wyandot

Iroquois
linked to: Haudenosaunee

Lenape
Mi'kmaq
linked to: Mi’kmaq

Narragansett
Ojibwe
Pequot
linked to: Pequot people

Wampanoag
linked to: Wampanoag people
locatedIn eastern North America
traditionalEconomy bean cultivation
fishing
gathering wild plants
hunting
maize agriculture
squash cultivation
vegetation birch trees
maple trees
oak trees
pine trees

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Native Americans historicalRegion Northeast Woodlands
Algonquian languages region Eastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Mahican culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Mohawk culturalRegion Northeast Woodlands
Lenape traditionalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Narragansett people traditionalTerritory Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Massachusett people region Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Pequot people culturalArea Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Nauset people cultureArea Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Podunk cultureArea Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Battle of the Great Swamp region Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Sauk culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Penobscot people traditionalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Penobscot people culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Shinnecock Indian Nation isIndigenousTo Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Pokanoket region culturalRegionOf Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Mahican language region Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Muh-he-con-neok nativeTo Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Oneida territory in New York culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Mahikan culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Delaware people culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Eastern Woodlands includesSubregion Northeast Woodlands
Sauk culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
subject linked to: Sac
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Sac and Fox culturalArea Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Bodéwadmi culturalArea Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Dakota traditionalRegion North American woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Fox cultureArea Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Pocasset band of the Wampanoag culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Fox Tribe culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Wappinger culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Quiripi people culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Quinnipiac territory locatedIn Northeastern Woodlands cultural area
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Narragansett Indian Tribe region Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Nipmuc people cultureArea Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Pennacook people ethnicGroupOf Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Pennacook people culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands culture area
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Algonquin people culturalArea Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Wigwam hasTypicalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Nipmuc language linguisticArea Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Algonquian peoples hasCulturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Menominee people culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Wappinger people region Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Chippewa culturalArea Northeast Woodlands cultural area
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Pocumtuck people cultureArea Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Niantic ethnicGroupOf Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Niantic culturalArea Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
The Great Peacemaker region Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
Oneida Nation culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
subject linked to: Oneida nation
linked to: Northeast Woodlands