FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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Eastern Woodlands and Pacific Northwest
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Southwest and Arctic
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Pacific Northwest and Arctic
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Eastern Woodlands and The Plains
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee or “People of the Longhouses") who resided in the Northeastern United States as well as Eastern Canada (Ontario and Quebec) built and inhabited longhouses.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Longhouses were the traditional homes for many of the farming tribes of American Indians that lived in southern New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The Haudenosaunee people of upstate New York were among them.
Detailed explanation-4: -A longhouse was the basic house type of pre-contact northern Iroquoian-speaking peoples, such as the Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Petun and Neutral. The longhouse sheltered a number of families related through the female line.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Northwest Coast was densely populated when Europeans first made landfall in the 1700s. It was home to peoples speaking Athabaskan, Tshimshianic, Salishan, and other languages. Well-known tribes included the Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Bella Coola, Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), Coast Salish, and Chinook.