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Map showing the distribution of Indigenous peoples of the Northeast Woodlands region in North America, with tribal names such as Algonquin, Ojibwa (Chippewa), Iroquois, Shawnee, and Powhatan labeled across present-day northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. Major lakes and rivers are marked, and a red boundary outlines the general region inhabited by these groups. Haudenosaunee Confederacy wampum belt given to William Penn Adirondack Mountains Secoton, a Powhatan Village Ojibwa wickiup Longhouse interior Northeast Indian moccasins Iroquois shoulder bag roach-style hair common to Northeast Indian nations
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Map showing the distribution of Indigenous peoples of the Northeast Woodlands region in North America, with tribal names such as Algonquin, Ojibwa (Chippewa), Iroquois, Shawnee, and Powhatan labeled across present-day northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. Major lakes and rivers are marked, and a red boundary outlines the general region inhabited by these groups.
Distribution of Northeast American peoples

Northeast Indian

people
Also known as: Indigenous peoples of the Northeast
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Elisabeth Tooker
Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Temple University, Philadelphia. Author of The Iroquois Ceremonial of Midwinter, Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands, Ethnography...
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Northeast Indian, member of any of the Native American peoples living at the time of European contact in the area roughly bounded in the north by the transition from predominantly deciduous forest to the taiga, in the east by the Atlantic Ocean, in the west by the Mississippi River valley, and in the south by an arc from the present-day North Carolina coast northwest to the Ohio River and thence southwest to its confluence with...

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