Northeast Woodlands

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The Northeast Woodlands is a cultural and geographic region of North America characterized by its forested environment and historically inhabited by diverse Native American peoples such as the Iroquois and Algonquian-speaking tribes.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural region
geographic region
associatedWith Iroquois Confederacy
Three Sisters agriculture
birchbark canoes
clan-based social organization
longhouse dwellings
wampum
wigwam dwellings
borderedBy Great Plains
Southeastern Woodlands
Subarctic region
characterizedBy forested environment
climate humid continental climate
continent North America
culturalAreaOf Indigenous peoples of North America
surface form: Native North America
hasBiome mixed coniferous-deciduous forest
temperate deciduous forest
hasSeason cold winters
warm summers
historicalPeriod early colonial era
pre-Columbian era
includesSubregion Great Lakes region
Mid-Atlantic region
New England
parts of southeastern Canada
inhabitedBy Abenaki
Algonquian peoples
surface form: Algonquian-speaking peoples

Haudenosaunee
Wyandot
surface form: Huron-Wendat

Haudenosaunee
surface form: Iroquois

Lenape
Mi’kmaq
surface form: Mi'kmaq

Narragansett
Ojibwe
Pequot people
surface form: Pequot

Wampanoag people
surface form: Wampanoag
locatedIn eastern North America
traditionalEconomy bean cultivation
fishing
gathering wild plants
hunting
maize agriculture
squash cultivation
vegetation birch trees
maple trees
oak trees
pine trees

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Maliseet traditionalRegion Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Passamaquoddy traditionalRegion Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
People of the Dawn associatedWithRegion Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
People of the Dawn relatedConcept Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands Indigenous peoples
Iroquoian peoples traditionalRegion Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Sacs regionOfCulturalArea Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Pαnawάhpskewi associatedWithRegion Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Maliseet people culturalRegion Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Passamaquoddy people culturalRegion Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Shinnecock language partOfLinguisticArea Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Wyandotte culturalRegion Northeast Woodlands
subject surface form: Wyandot
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Alnôba culturalArea Northeast Woodlands
Ottawa tribe culturalRegion Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Mahikan language belongsToCulturalArea Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Onyota’a:ka (People of the Standing Stone) hasAncestralHomelandRegion Northeast Woodlands
subject surface form: Onyota’a:ka
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Menominee culturalRegion Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
turtle clan locatedIn Northeast Woodlands
subject surface form: Turtle clan (Lenape)
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
turkey clan region Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
People of the Great Swamp refersToIndigenousPeopleOf Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Onöñda’gega’ culturalArea Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Mesquakie Indians culturalRegion Northeast Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands