Southeastern Woodlands

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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

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Hitchiti language region Southeastern Woodlands
Red River locatedInRegion Southeastern Woodlands
subject surface form: Red River (Southeastern Woodlands)
Koasati people culturalRegion Southeastern Woodlands
Hitchiti people traditionalRegion Southeastern Woodlands
Chickasaw (some warriors) historicalRegionOfOrigin Southeastern Woodlands
Houma culturalRegion Southeastern Woodlands
Potano culturalRegion Southeastern Woodlands
Natchez people culturalRegion Southeastern Woodlands
Mayaca (sometimes confused or conflated in sources) partOf Southeastern Woodlands
subject surface form: Mayaca
this entity surface form: Southeastern Woodlands cultural area
Late Archaic period spatialLocation Southeastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Southeastern North America
Guale people culturalRegion Southeastern Woodlands