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  2. 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]

  3. Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands - Wikipedia

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    Because of this reliance on farming, these tribes did not migrate like the more northern Eastern Woodlands tribes and instead stayed in one place, which resulted in them developing new social and political structures. [6] The Eastern Woodlands tribes located further north (Algonquian-speaking people) relied heavily on hunting to acquire food. [4]

  4. Eastern woodlands of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The boreal forests of the early Quaternary enjoyed a modest expansion. 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.

  5. Abenaki - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Abenaki population was concentrated in portions of New Brunswick and Maine east of New Hampshire's White Mountains. The other major group, the Western Abenaki, lived in the Connecticut River valley in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. [10] The Missiquoi lived along the eastern shore of Lake Champlain.

  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. Wabanaki Confederacy - Wikipedia

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    Symbol of the Wabanaki Union of Tribes, still in use. It was originally embroidered onto the ceremonial clothing of sakoms. The Caughnawaga Council was a large neutral political gathering in the Mohawk territory that occurred every three years for tribes and tribal confederacies within and around the Great Lakes, East Coast, and Saint Lawrence ...

  8. 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.

  9. Monongahela culture - Wikipedia

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    The Monongahela culture were an Iroquoian Native American cultural manifestation of Late Woodland peoples from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day Western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia. [1] The culture was named by Mary Butler in 1939 for the Monongahela River, whose valley contains the majority of this culture's ...