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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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 (16)

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

Muskogean languages → arealGroup → Southeastern Woodlands →

Northeast Woodlands → borderedBy → Southeastern Woodlands →

Belle Glade culture → culturalArea → Southeastern Woodlands →

Cherokee Nation (historical) → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands →

Choctaw Nation → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands →

Maimies → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands →

Mayami → culturalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands →

Tequesta → cultureArea → Southeastern Woodlands →

Kawita (Coweta) people → ethnicGroupOf → Southeastern Woodlands →

subject surface form: "Kawita people"

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 → heritageRegion → Southeastern Woodlands →

subject surface form: "Kawita people"

this entity surface form: "Southeastern Woodlands cultural area"

Creek (Muscogee) → historicalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands →

Native Americans → historicalRegion → Southeastern Woodlands →

Eastern Woodlands → includesSubregion → Southeastern Woodlands →

this entity surface form: "Southeast Woodlands"

Spanish conquest of Florida → locatedIn → Southeastern Woodlands →

this entity surface form: "Southeastern North America"