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  2. Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands - Wikipedia

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    The largest political unit among the Eastern Woodland tribes were village bands, which were led by one chief. [2] In the Eastern Woodlands Algonquian-speaking societies, patrilineal clans had names associated with animal totems; these clans comprised the village bands. [7]

  3. Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Eastern woodlands of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Riparian, bottomland, and wetland plant communities expanded. The grassy woodlands contracted and retracted westward. [6] Prescribed fire in Virginia, 1995. Many eastern ridgetops were burned by American Indians. At about 4,000 years BP, the Archaic Indian cultures began practicing agriculture throughout the region. Technology had advanced to ...

  6. Pre-Columbian woodlands of North America - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern woodlands of the United States extended further east to the Atlantic seaboard. In the southeast, longleaf pine dominated the grassy woodlands and open-floored forests which once covered 92,000,000 acres (370,000 km 2) from Virginia to Texas. These covered 36% of the region's land and 52% of the upland areas.

  7. List of burial mounds in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable burial mounds in the United States built by Native Americans. Burial mounds were built by many different cultural groups over a span of many thousands of years, beginning in the Late Archaic period and continuing through the Woodland period up to the time of European contact.

  8. Dolls offer representation: Falmouth Art Center hosts tribal ...

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    Central to show is theme of tribal representation where dolls give children who play with them a hand-held depiction of themselves and their culture.

  9. Indigenous peoples of Maryland - Wikipedia

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    These tribes belong to the Northeastern Woodlands, a cultural region. Only 2% of the state's population self-reported as having Native American ancestry in the 2020 US census . Many of these individuals belong to Native American tribes and Indigenous peoples of the Americas whose territory is outside of Maryland.