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  2. Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Pre-Columbian woodlands of North America - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Cherokee - Wikipedia

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    Unlike most other Native American tribes in the American Southeast at the start of the historic era, the Cherokee and Tuscarora people spoke Iroquoian languages. Since the Great Lakes region was the territory of most Iroquoian-language speakers, scholars have theorized that both the Cherokee and Tuscarora migrated south from that region.

  5. Chickasaw - Wikipedia

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    The United States considered the Chickasaw one of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast, as they adopted numerous practices of European Americans. Resisting European-American settlers encroaching on their territory, they were forced by the U.S. government to sell their traditional lands in the 1832 Treaty of Pontotoc Creek and move to ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Category : Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands

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  8. 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]

  9. Category : Indigenous culture of the Southeastern Woodlands

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    Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands (7 C, 71 P) ... Cherokee culture (3 C, 30 P) Native American cuisine of the Southeastern Woodlands (12 P)