Eastern Woodlands

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Eastern Woodlands is a broad cultural and geographic region of North America characterized by its dense forests, river systems, and the diverse Indigenous peoples who traditionally inhabited these lands.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural region
geographic region
archaeologicalTradition Adena culture
Hopewell tradition
Mississippian culture
Woodland period
associatedWith mixed coniferous-deciduous forests
temperate deciduous forests
woodland ecosystems
characterizedBy dense forests
diverse Indigenous peoples
extensive river systems
continent North America
culturalFeature clan-based social organization
complex trade networks
longhouse dwellings in some nations
mound-building in some societies
seasonal mobility patterns
use of wampum in diplomacy and record-keeping
wigwam dwellings in some nations
extendsFrom Atlantic coast
subarctic regions of Canada
extendsTo Mississippi River valley
southeastern United States
impactedBy European colonization
epidemic diseases after contact
fur trade
includesSubregion Northeast Woodlands
Southeast Woodlands
locatedIn eastern North America
timeDepth pre-contact Indigenous occupation spanning thousands of years
traditionalInhabitants Algonquian-speaking peoples
linked to: Algonquian peoples

Anishinaabe peoples
linked to: Anishinabek

Catawba
Cherokee
Choctaw
linked to: Choctaw people

Creek (Muscogee)
Fox (Meskwaki)
linked to: Meskwaki (Fox)

Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy)
linked to: Haudenosaunee

Huron-Wendat
linked to: Wyandot

Illinois Confederation
Iroquoian-speaking peoples
Lenape (Delaware)
linked to: Lenape

Mi'kmaq
linked to: Mi’kmaq

Miami people
Muskogean-speaking peoples
linked to: Muskogean languages

Natchez people
Ojibwe
Pequot
linked to: Pequot people

Potawatomi
Powhatan peoples
Seminole
Shawnee
Siouan-speaking peoples
linked to: Siouan languages

Timucua
Tuscarora
Wampanoag
linked to: Wampanoag people

Yuchi
traditionalSubsistence beans and squash agriculture
fishing
gathering wild plants
hunting
maize agriculture

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Lenape culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Ho-Chunk culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Sauk people culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Narragansett people culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Indigenous peoples of North America hasSubgroup Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Indigenous peoples of North America hasSubgroup Indigenous peoples of the Southeast
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Massachusett people cultureArea Eastern Woodlands
Nauset people partOf Eastern Woodlands cultures
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Mohegan tribe historicalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Mohegan tribe culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Meskwaki ethnographicRegion Eastern Woodlands
subject linked to: Meskwaki (Fox)
Metacom historicalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Herring Pond Wampanoag culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Abenaki ethnicGroupOf Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Abenaki culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Kickapoo people culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Narragansett culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Mississippian culture flourishedIn Eastern Woodlands
Seminole culture Southeastern Woodlands culture
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Hopewell tradition partOf Eastern Woodlands cultures
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Hopewell tradition locatedIn Eastern Woodlands of North America
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Southeastern Woodlands partOf Eastern Woodlands
Shawnee culturalArea Eastern Woodlands
Appamatuck culture Eastern Woodlands culture area
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Miami tribe culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Western Abenaki language region Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Winnebago culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Muh-he-con-neok cultureArea Eastern Woodlands
Seneca culturalGroup Eastern Woodlands tribes
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Delaware people partOf Eastern Woodlands cultures
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Unami region Eastern Woodlands
Water Spirit clan ethnographicContext Upper Midwest Indigenous peoples
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Mohegan region Northeastern Woodlands cultural area
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Miami people culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Nanticoke culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Niantic people traditionalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Eno people cultureArea Eastern Woodlands
Occaneechi people culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Tuscarora language historicalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Wappinger partOf Eastern Woodlands cultural area
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Mi’kmaq region Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Mi’kmaq culturalArea Eastern Woodlands
pipe tomahawk associatedWith Eastern Woodlands tribes
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Pocumtuck homeland locatedIn Northeastern Woodlands cultural area
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Shawnee Nation culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Wappinger people partOf Eastern Woodlands cultural area
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Second Anglo-Powhatan War opponent Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Nacotchtank people cultureArea Eastern Woodlands
Fort Ancient culture partOf Eastern Woodlands cultural area
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
Early Mississippian locatedIn Eastern Woodlands of North America
linked to: Eastern Woodlands