Northeastern Woodlands

NORTHEAST AREA

Peoples

Languages
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Iroquoian
     The League of the Iroquois
          Mohawk
          Oneida
          Onondaga
          Cayuga
          Seneca
          Tuscarorah
     Huron
     Nottaway

Algonkin

     Cree-Montagnais-Neskapi
     Menomini
     Fox-Sauk-Kickapoo
     Shawnee
     Potowatami
     Ojibwa-Ottawa-Algonquin-Salteaux
     Delaware
     Penobscot-Abanaki
     Malecite-Passamaquoddy
     Micmac
     Blackfoot-Piegan-Blood

Major Source of Food

     Most groups in this area practiced some form of agriculture, with maize beans and squash (often referred to as the "Three Sisters" being the major staple. Fishing and hunting were also practiced.

House Types

      The Iroquoian peoples generally lived in a "longhouse". In fact, the Iroquois generally refer to themselves as "Longhouse People" (the actal word varies among the languages). These are dwellings separated into sections for different related familes. Generally in a longhouse one might find a marriaed couple, their unmarried sons and daughters and their married daughters with the husbands ad their children.

      The Algonkin have a hemispheric shaped dwelling known as a "wigwam"

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