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Raymond D. Fogelson

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BIOGRAPHY

Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago. Editor of Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 14, Southeast.

Primary Contributions (1)

Map of the southeastern United States showing the historical locations of various Indigenous peoples, with tribal names such as Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, Natchez, Catawba, and Calusa labeled across the region. A red outline marks the general boundary of the Southeast cultural area, extending from eastern Texas and Louisiana through the Gulf Coast, up to the Atlantic coast and into parts of the Carolinas and Virginia. Major bodies of water like the Gulf of Mexico and the Atla

Indigenous peoples of the American Southeast

Indigenous peoples of the American Southeast, any of the Native American peoples of what is now the Southeastern United States. The boundaries of this culture area are somewhat difficult to delineate, because the traditional cultures in the Southeast shared many characteristics with those from…