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Painting of a Choctaw woman by George Catlin. Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands, Southeastern cultures, or Southeast Indians are an ethnographic classification for Native Americans who have traditionally inhabited the area now part of the Southeastern United States and the northeastern border of Mexico, that share common cultural traits.
Eastern woodlands of the United States - Woodlands in southeastern regions. Oak savanna - Savanna in west coast, western, and central regions. Native American use of fire - Other native uses of fire. Terra preta - Use of burning in South America agricultural use rather than grassland. Prairie remnant - Pre-Columbian fire dependent habitats of ...
Approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures. The Mississippian culture were collections of Native American societies that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600 CE, varying regionally.
Pine savanna (pine land) extended to the Atlantic plain (1779 map). The oak-hickory forest of the Northeast was primarily burned by Native Americans, resulting in oak openings, barrens, and prairies in the Northeast and the Piedmont of North Carolina. There was nearly annual burning throughout the Northeast. [7]
Joseph Brant, a Mohawk, depicted in a portrait by Charles Bird King, circa 1835 Three Lenape people, depicted in a painting by George Catlin in the 1860s. Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands include Native American tribes and First Nation bands residing in or originating from a cultural area encompassing the northeastern and Midwest United States and southeastern Canada. [1]
The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek or just Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy (pronounced [məskóɡəlɡi] in the Muscogee language; English: / m ə s ˈ k oʊ ɡ iː / məss-KOH-ghee), are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands [2] in the United States.
In the United States, the EPA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) are the principal federal agencies working with the CEC to define and map ecoregions. Ecoregions may be identified by similarities in geology, physiography, vegetation, climate, soils, land use, wildlife distributions, and hydrology.
The California chaparral and woodlands is a terrestrial ecoregion of southwestern Oregon, northern, central, and southern California (United States) and northwestern Baja California , located on the west coast of North America. It is an ecoregion of the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome, and part of the Nearctic realm.