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The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France .
Adena, 1000–200 BC, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, and parts of Pennsylvania and New York. Hopewell culture, 200 BC–500 AD, Southeastern Canada and eastern United States; Troyville culture, 400–700 AD, Louisiana and Mississippi; Coles Creek culture, 700–1200 AD, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi
1755 map by John Mitchell showing "Muskingum, English Facty. (factory) T. of Owendoes," lower left of map's center. Before 1750, George Croghan established a trading house at Muskingum, complete with a residence and a storehouse called "the King's House." [15]: 95–97 Croghan was there when Christopher Gist arrived in December, 1750. The ...
On August 5, 1684, the New York Iroqouis were encouraged to take control of the Ohio Valley to establish New York trade from the lower half of the Ohio Valley with the French. [48] The first documented Albany Trade began with the Vielle of Albany during the 1692–94 expedition. Virginians were already trading with groups in West Virginia at ...
1840s map of Mound City. From about 200 BC to AD 500, the Ohio River Valley was a central area of the prehistoric Hopewell culture. The term Hopewell (taken from the land owner who owned the land where one of the mound complexes was located) culture is applied to a broad network of beliefs and practices among different Native American peoples who inhabited a large portion of eastern North America.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo The Brazilian people have several ethnic groups. First row: Portuguese, German, Italian, Arab, and Japanese respectively. . Second row: African, pardo (cafuzo, mulato and caboclo, respectively) and Indigenous (Amerindian) Braz
This was true of Native Americans in the Pittsburgh area and the Ohio River Valley area in general. In addition, the relationship between the Indians and the French was so strong that most Native American tribes allied with the French during the Conquest, although several chiefs such as Tanachrission wanted to join the British.
They constructed earthworks, like conical burial mounds and circular enclosures—some of the earliest earthworks built in Ohio. [14] There were also people in northern Ohio who lived similarly to the Adena culture, but their earthworks were oval enclosures called forts and walls along bluffs. They did not create large earthen mounds. [14]