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The Eastern Woodlands extended roughly from the Atlantic Ocean to the eastern Great Plains, and from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico, which is now part of the Eastern United States and Canada. [1] The Plains Indians culture area is to the west; the Subarctic area to the north.
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]
Our People, Our Journey: The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2009. This work was a 2010 Michigan Notable Book selected by the Library of Michigan. ISBN 978-0-87013-855-3; McDonnell, Michael A. Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America. New York Hill and Wang, 2015.
Shawnee woman's blouse with silver medallions, circa 19th century, Indian Territory , collection of the Peabody Museum, Harvard. The Shawnee Tribe is an Eastern Woodland tribe. They originally came from Ohio and Pennsylvania, and were the last of the Shawnee to leave their traditional homelands there. [6]
Today, the best-surviving features of the Hopewell tradition era are earthwork mounds. Researchers have speculated about their purposes and debate continues. Great geometric earthworks are one of the most impressive Native American monuments throughout American prehistory, and were built by cultures following the Hopewell. Eastern Woodlands ...
Today, there are more Lenape in Oklahoma and Wisconsin than in New Jersey. There are, at most, 5,000 Ramapough in New Jersey. Those who stayed have faced hardship.
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.
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 ...