 Woodland
Nations
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An 1812 pencil sketch drawing
of Tecumtha by
Lossing. |
The Woodland Natives of North America
were the first to
be assimilated and the first to
lose their
culture, their land and ultimately
their lives
to the invaders who took without
asking and left
nothing unscathed.

Woodland Nations are usually
considered to be all of those
Native People who lived East of
the Mississippi River,
from Maine to Florida,
they were all called Woodland People.
Although their geographical
areas and numbers were vast,
these Native People shared many
commonalities in their cultures.
Many Woodland People were
Nomads or those who
lived as they traveled in the
hunt of their food,
while others, stayed put and raised
their own food.
Housing was also similar among
the Woodland People,
with Longhouses, round houses
or wigwams and Tipis
being the most common types of
lodging.
Some People, like my Shawnee
and the Creek Nations,
were Matrilineal, meaning that
control was passed
down through Tribal women and
their relatives.
*There have been rebukes of
this statement by readers, however,
my information came from a
very elder Creek chief many years ago
who stated that the Shawnee
and Creek people were at one time
united in the south
and that both were Matrilineal.
Patrilineal Tribes were
controlled by the Men.
Within the Tribes, were smaller
groups called clans which
were sorted by different
families and their relatives.
Despite their differences as
Native Peoples, eventually
all Woodland Nations would face
a common enemy,
the encroaching non natives
landing on their shores
who while accepting the kind
generosities of the Natives,
were methodically planning how
to annihilate them.
Unlike the Western Native
Nations, the Woodland People did
not get any advanced warnings,
by the time that they learned
what these new people were
really like, it was too late.
These are some of the Woodland
Nations:
People of the Place of the Fire
Citizen Potawatomi Nation
After reading this document you
will understand
why our own constitution was
formed from it.
Constitution of the Iroquois Nations
Description of the
creation of the Iroquois League,
with an excellent depiction of
their Longhouses.
Founding of the Iroquois League
People Building a Long
House
The Seneca, Cayuga,
Onondaga, Oneida,
Mohawk and Tuscarora
Nations.
The
Haudenosaunee
The Ho-Chunk or Winnebago,
the People of the Big
Voice.
The
Ho-Chunk Nation
The Lenapes:
Hudson Valley Indians
Indiana Native People's History
Indian Removal from Indiana
Woodland Indian Languages
The Eastern Woodland Natives
were the first to
be displaced by the
encroachment of Europeans.
Indians of the Lower Hudson Valley
The Lumbee People of
North Carolina
Lumbee River Pathways
The Lumbee
Tribe
A look at the early culture of
New England Natives.
Manners and Customs of the
Indians of New England 1637
People of the Waters that are
Never Still.
Mohican Nation
Stockbridge - Munsee Band
Native American Tribes of the Hudson River
The traditionals of the Oneida Nation
finally, once again, have a website:
Oneidas for Democracy
For more about the Oneidas,
please see the Issues Page
The Lenni-Lenape:
Original People of the Schuylkill Watershed
The first to see the sun
rise each day.
The Passamaquoddy Tribe of
Maine
Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point
One of the first American Native peoples of
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio
The
Potawatami
The
Powhatan Renape Nation
The Mohegan People Of
Connecticut
Sachem Uncas
One of the six tribes of
the Iroquois Confederacy
who occupy aboriginal
lands in the state of New York.
The Seneca Nation
of New York
There are few web sites
about the Shawnee people,
and most of them are either
biased or flawed,
this is one that may be
considered to be fairly accurate.
The
Shawnee of many places
An excellent paper describing
many details
of early New England Indian
history.
The Significance of Wampum to
Seventeenth Century Indians in New England
An historical and informative
look
at the eight tribes of Virginia.
Virginia's Indian Tribes
Indigenous or First People of
Florida
Walking with the
Alligators

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