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The Early Woodland period continued many trends begun during the Late and Terminal Archaic periods, including extensive mound-building, regional distinctive burial complexes, the trade of exotic goods across a large area of North America as part of interaction spheres, the reliance on both wild and domesticated plant foods, and a mobile subsistence strategy in which small groups took advantage ...
The Eastern Woodlands is a cultural area of the Indigenous people of North America.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]
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]
Southeastern Woodlands societies were usually divided into clans; the most common from pre-contact Hopewellian times into the present include Bear, Beaver, Bird other than a raptor, Canine (e.g. Wolf), Elk, Feline (e.g. Panther), Fox, Raccoon, and Raptor. [34] They observe strict incest taboos, including taboos against marriage within a clan.
The Adena culture was a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from 500 BCE [1] to 100 CE, [2] in a time known as the Early Woodland period. [3] The Adena culture refers to what were probably a number of related Native American societies sharing a burial complex and ceremonial system.
The Hopewell tradition, also called the Hopewell culture and Hopewellian exchange, describes a network of precontact Native American cultures that flourished in settlements along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern Eastern Woodlands from 100 BCE to 500 CE, in the Middle Woodland period.
Woodland Songs celebrates the five woodland animals — the squirrel, bird, deer, raccoon, and fish — representing the different clans of the Eastern Woodlands People. Characteristics of each ...
The Chickasaw (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ k ə s ɔː / CHIK-ə-saw) are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, United States. Their traditional territory was in northern Mississippi, northwestern and northern Alabama, western Tennessee and southwestern Kentucky. [2] Their language is classified as a member of the Muskogean language family.