Eastern Woodlands

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Eastern Woodlands is a broad cultural and geographic region of North America characterized by its dense forests, river systems, and the diverse Indigenous peoples who traditionally inhabited these lands.


Statements (63)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural region
geographic region
archaeologicalTradition Adena culture
Hopewell tradition
Mississippian culture
Woodland period
associatedWith mixed coniferous-deciduous forests
temperate deciduous forests
woodland ecosystems
characterizedBy dense forests
diverse Indigenous peoples
extensive river systems
continent North America
culturalFeature clan-based social organization
complex trade networks
longhouse dwellings in some nations
mound-building in some societies
seasonal mobility patterns
use of wampum in diplomacy and record-keeping
wigwam dwellings in some nations
extendsFrom Atlantic coast
subarctic regions of Canada
extendsTo Mississippi River valley
Southern United States
surface form: southeastern United States
impactedBy European colonization
epidemic diseases after contact
fur trade
includesSubregion Northeast Woodlands
Southeastern Woodlands
surface form: Southeast Woodlands
locatedIn eastern North America
timeDepth pre-contact Indigenous occupation spanning thousands of years
traditionalInhabitants Algonquian peoples
surface form: Algonquian-speaking peoples

Anishinabek
surface form: Anishinaabe peoples

Catawba
Cherokee
Choctaw people
surface form: Choctaw

Creek (Muscogee)
Meskwaki (Fox)
surface form: Fox (Meskwaki)

Haudenosaunee
surface form: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy)

Wyandot
surface form: Huron-Wendat

Illinois Confederation
Iroquoian-speaking peoples
Lenape
surface form: Lenape (Delaware)

Mi’kmaq
surface form: Mi'kmaq

Miami people
Muskogean languages
surface form: Muskogean-speaking peoples

Natchez people
Ojibwe
Pequot people
surface form: Pequot

Potawatomi
Powhatan peoples
Seminole
Shawnee
Siouan languages
surface form: Siouan-speaking peoples

Timucua
Tuscarora
Wampanoag people
surface form: Wampanoag

Yuchi
traditionalSubsistence beans and squash agriculture
fishing
gathering wild plants
hunting
maize agriculture

Referenced by (32)

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

Shawnee culturalArea Eastern Woodlands
Seneca culturalGroup Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Eastern Woodlands tribes
Abenaki culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Herring Pond Wampanoag culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Ho-Chunk culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Kickapoo people culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Lenape culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Miami tribe culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Mohegan tribe culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Narragansett culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Narragansett people culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Sauk people culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Winnebago culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
subject surface form: Appamatuck
this entity surface form: Eastern Woodlands culture area
Seminole culture Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Southeastern Woodlands culture
Massachusett people cultureArea Eastern Woodlands
Muh-he-con-neok cultureArea Eastern Woodlands
Abenaki ethnicGroupOf Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Water Spirit clan ethnographicContext Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Upper Midwest Indigenous peoples
Meskwaki (Fox) ethnographicRegion Eastern Woodlands
subject surface form: Meskwaki
Mississippian culture flourishedIn Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Indigenous peoples of the Southeast
Metacom historicalRegion Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Mohegan tribe historicalRegion Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
Hopewell tradition locatedIn Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Eastern Woodlands of North America
Delaware people partOf Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Eastern Woodlands cultures
Hopewell tradition partOf Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Eastern Woodlands cultures
Nauset people partOf Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Eastern Woodlands cultures
Southeastern Woodlands partOf Eastern Woodlands
Unami region Eastern Woodlands
Western Abenaki language region Eastern Woodlands
this entity surface form: Northeastern Woodlands