FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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Question
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Eastern Woodlands
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Great Basin
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Pacific Northwest
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Plains
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Detailed explanation-1: -Environments ranged from boreal pine to temperate birch forests to warm swampland. The Eastern Woodlands Indians inhabited an area that ranged from the Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Eastern Woodlands includes, among others, the Haudenosaunee, Mi’kmaq, Ojibwe and Wendat (Huron) peoples. The Eastern Woodlands is one of six cultural areas of Indigenous peoples in Canada. The region stretches from the northeastern coast of present-day United States and the Maritimes to west of the Great Lakes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Within these groups there was a division of labor, meaning jobs were divided between men and women. Men: Hunting and fishing. Women: Preparing food, making clothing, taking care of the children, planting and harvesting crops (farming).
Detailed explanation-4: -They included the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Huron. The Tuscarora, who also spoke an Iroquoian language, lived in the coastal hills of present-day North Carolina and Virginia.