Southeastern Woodlands

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Native American cultural area cultural region geographic region

The Southeastern Woodlands refers to a cultural and geographic region of what is now the southeastern United States, historically inhabited by diverse Native American societies known for complex chiefdoms, mound-building traditions, and rich agricultural and ceremonial practices.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Southeastern Woodlands canonical 50
Southeastern North America 5
Southeastern Woodlands cultural area 3

Statements (164)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American cultural area ⓘ
cultural region ⓘ
geographic region ⓘ
agriculturalStaple beans ⓘ
maize ⓘ
squash ⓘ
sunflower ⓘ
tobacco ⓘ
economicActivity fishing ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ
horticulture ⓘ
hunting ⓘ
long-distance trade ⓘ
hasArchaeologicalSite Angel Mounds ⓘ
Bottle Creek Mounds ⓘ
Cahokia Mounds region ⓘ
surface form: Cahokia

Winterville Mounds ⓘ
surface form: Chucalissa

Emerald Mound ⓘ
Etowah Indian Mounds ⓘ
Hiwassee Island ⓘ
Kolomoki Mounds ⓘ
Moundville Archaeological Park ⓘ
surface form: Moundville

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park ⓘ
surface form: Ocmulgee Mounds

Poverty Point ⓘ
Spiro Mounds ⓘ
Town Creek Indian Mound ⓘ
Winterville Mounds ⓘ
hasClimate humid subtropical climate ⓘ
hasCulturalTradition Green Corn Ceremony ⓘ
southeastern ceremonial complex ⓘ
surface form: Southeastern Ceremonial Complex

ball games ⓘ
clan systems ⓘ
matrilineal kinship in many groups ⓘ
mound-building ⓘ
ritual feasting ⓘ
hasEconomy deer hide trade ⓘ
maize-based agriculture ⓘ
riverine fisheries ⓘ
hasEnvironment coastal plains ⓘ
deciduous forests ⓘ
river valleys ⓘ
wetlands ⓘ
historicalInhabitants Caddo ⓘ
surface form: Caddoan Mississippian culture

Caddoan languages ⓘ
surface form: Caddoan-speaking peoples

Fort Ancient culture ⓘ
Hopewell tradition ⓘ
surface form: Hopewell tradition groups

Iroquoian-speaking peoples ⓘ
Mississippian culture ⓘ
Muskogean languages ⓘ
surface form: Muskogean-speaking peoples

Siouan-speaking peoples ⓘ
housingPattern dispersed farmsteads ⓘ
plaza-centered towns ⓘ
impactedBy British colonization ⓘ
European colonization ⓘ
French colonization ⓘ
Indian Removal policy of the United States ⓘ
surface form: Indian Removal policies

Spanish expeditions ⓘ
Trail of Tears ⓘ
disease epidemics ⓘ
includesPeople Alabama people ⓘ
Apalachee ⓘ
Atakapa ⓘ
Biloxi people ⓘ
Caddo ⓘ
Catawba ⓘ
Catawba Indian Nation ⓘ
Cherokee ⓘ
Chickasaw Nation ⓘ
surface form: Chickasaw

Chitimacha ⓘ
Chitimacha ⓘ
surface form: Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana

Choctaw people ⓘ
surface form: Choctaw

Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana ⓘ
Creek ⓘ
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ⓘ
Guale ⓘ
Muscogee language ⓘ
surface form: Hitchiti

Houma ⓘ
Houma people ⓘ
Koasati ⓘ
Lumbee ⓘ
Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida ⓘ
Choctaw Nation ⓘ
surface form: Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

Mobile people ⓘ
Natchez ⓘ
Ofo ⓘ
Pensacola people ⓘ
Poarch Band of Creek Indians ⓘ
Quapaw ⓘ
Seminole ⓘ
Seminole ⓘ
surface form: Seminole Tribe of Florida

Shawnee ⓘ
Taensa ⓘ
Timucua ⓘ
Tunica ⓘ
Tunica-Biloxi ⓘ
Biloxi people ⓘ
surface form: Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana

Tuscarora ⓘ
Waccamaw ⓘ
Weapemeoc ⓘ
Yamasee ⓘ
Yuchi ⓘ
knownFor ceremonial practices ⓘ
complex chiefdoms ⓘ
intensive agriculture ⓘ
long-distance trade networks ⓘ
mound-building traditions ⓘ
town-centered settlements ⓘ
languageFamilies Algonquian languages ⓘ
Caddoan languages ⓘ
Iroquoian languages ⓘ
Muskogean languages ⓘ
Siouan languages ⓘ
Timucua language isolate ⓘ
locatedIn North America ⓘ
Southern United States ⓘ
surface form: southeastern United States
majorRiver Alabama River ⓘ
Apalachicola River ⓘ
Arkansas River ⓘ
Mississippi River ⓘ
Ohio River ⓘ
Red River ⓘ
Savannah River ⓘ
Tennessee River ⓘ
materialCulture ceramic pottery ⓘ
copper plates ⓘ
shell gorgets ⓘ
stone effigy pipes ⓘ
thatched roofs ⓘ
wattle-and-daub houses ⓘ
woven textiles ⓘ
modernStatesOverlap Alabama ⓘ
Arkansas ⓘ
Florida ⓘ
Georgia ⓘ
Illinois ⓘ
Indiana ⓘ
Kentucky ⓘ
Louisiana ⓘ
Mississippi ⓘ
Missouri ⓘ
North Carolina ⓘ
Ohio ⓘ
Oklahoma ⓘ
South Carolina ⓘ
Tennessee ⓘ
Texas ⓘ
Virginia ⓘ
West Virginia ⓘ
partOf Eastern Woodlands ⓘ
politicalOrganization chiefdoms ⓘ
confederacies ⓘ
tribal towns ⓘ
recognizedBy anthropologists ⓘ
archaeologists ⓘ
ethnohistorians ⓘ
religiousBeliefs ancestor veneration ⓘ
animism ⓘ
cosmology with upper, middle, and lower worlds ⓘ
sacred fire rituals ⓘ
timeDepth Archaic period ⓘ
Contact period ⓘ
Historic period ⓘ
Mississippian period ⓘ
Woodland period ⓘ

Referenced by (61)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Native Americans → historicalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Cherokee Nation (historical) → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Choctaw Nation → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Mississippian culture → flourishedIn → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southeastern North America
Creek (Muscogee) Nation → hasCulturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southeastern Woodlands culture area
Kawita (Coweta) people → ethnicGroupOf → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
subject surface form: Kawita people
Kawita (Coweta) people → heritageRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
subject surface form: Kawita people
this entity surface form: Southeastern Woodlands cultural area
Northeast Woodlands → borderedBy → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Muskogean languages → arealGroup → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Eastern Woodlands → includesSubregion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southeast Woodlands
Mayami → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Maimies → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Tequesta → cultureArea → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Belle Glade culture → culturalArea → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Spanish conquest of Florida → locatedIn → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southeastern North America
Creek (Muscogee) → historicalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Quapaw → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Battle of Fort Frederica → region → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southeastern North America
Eno people → ethnicGroupOf → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Eno people → cultureArea → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Occaneechi people → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Quapaw tribe → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
battle of Mabila (during his North American expedition) → historicalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
subject surface form: Battle of Mabila
Yamasee → culturalArea → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Chota → region → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Natchez → cultureArea → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Plaquemine culture → partOf → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Mikasuki language → historicalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Cherokee → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Chickasaw Wars → region → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Earth Lodge → culturalContext → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Lower Creek territory → partOf → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southeastern Woodlands cultural area
Lower Creeks → ethnicGroupOf → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Lower Creeks → region → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southeastern North America
Caddo → nativeTo → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Yuchi → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Alabama people → culturalArea → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Biloxi people → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Tunica → culturalArea → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Atakapa → culturalArea → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Tunica-Biloxi → region → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Ofo → locatedInThePast → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Taensa → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Waccamaw → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Chitimacha → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana → region → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana → hasCulturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southeastern Woodlands culture area
Apalachee people → culturalArea → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Bottle Creek Mounds → locatedIn → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Neusiok (Neuse) Native American people → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
subject surface form: Neusiok