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Southeastern tribes or Southeastern cultures are an ethnographic
Ethnography

Ethnography is a genre of writing that uses fieldwork to provide a descriptive study of human societies. Ethnography presents the results of a holism research method founded on the idea that a system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other....
 classification for Native American
Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States United States, including parts of Alaska and the island state of Hawaii....
 peoples that inhabited the Southeastern
Southeastern United States

The US Southeast is the eastern portion of the Southern United States, but the Census Bureau does not provide a standard definition of a "Southeast" region of the United States, and organizations that need to subdivide the US are free to define a "Southeast" region to fit their needs....
 United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 that shared common cultural
Culture

Culture is difficult to define. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions....
 traits. Sometimes this classification is subsumed into the Eastern Woodlands classification.

Most Southeastern tribes (excepting some of the coastal peoples) were highly agricultural
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
, growing crops like maize
Maize

Maize , known as corn in some countries, is a cereal domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents....
 for food, and cotton
Cotton

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa....
 for clothing. They also shared a similar religious beliefs and engaged in mound building to create sacred or acknowledge sites.






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Southeastern tribes or Southeastern cultures are an ethnographic
Ethnography

Ethnography is a genre of writing that uses fieldwork to provide a descriptive study of human societies. Ethnography presents the results of a holism research method founded on the idea that a system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other....
 classification for Native American
Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States United States, including parts of Alaska and the island state of Hawaii....
 peoples that inhabited the Southeastern
Southeastern United States

The US Southeast is the eastern portion of the Southern United States, but the Census Bureau does not provide a standard definition of a "Southeast" region of the United States, and organizations that need to subdivide the US are free to define a "Southeast" region to fit their needs....
 United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 that shared common cultural
Culture

Culture is difficult to define. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions....
 traits. Sometimes this classification is subsumed into the Eastern Woodlands classification.

Most Southeastern tribes (excepting some of the coastal peoples) were highly agricultural
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
, growing crops like maize
Maize

Maize , known as corn in some countries, is a cereal domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents....
 for food, and cotton
Cotton

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa....
 for clothing. They also shared a similar religious beliefs and engaged in mound building to create sacred or acknowledge sites. Many of the religious beliefs of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex

The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex is the name given to the regional stylistic similarity of artifact , iconography, ceremony and mythology of the Mississippian culture that coincided with their adoption of maize agriculture and chiefdom-level complex social organization from 1200 CE to 1650 CE....
 or the Southern Cult, where also shared by the Eastern Woodlands tribes, probably spread through the dominance of the Mississippian culture
Mississippian culture

The Mississippian culture was a Mound builder Native Americans in the United States culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern United States, Eastern United States, and Southeastern United States United States from approximately 800 Common Era to 1500 Common Era, varying regionally....
 in the 10th century.

Southeastern tribes

  • Adaes - see Adai
  • Adahi - see Adai
  • Adai
    Adai

    Adai is the name of a people and language that was spoken in northwestern Louisiana and were a Southeastern tribes of Native Americans in the United States....
     (Adaizan, Adaizi, Adaise, Adahi, Adaes, Adees, Atayos) Louisiana
    Louisiana

    The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....
  • Adaise - see Adai
  • Adaizan - see Adai
  • Adaizi - see Adai'
  • Adees - see Adai
  • Ais
    Ais (tribe)

    The Ais, or Ays were a tribe of Native Americans in the United States who inhabited the Atlantic Coast of Florida. They ranged from present day Cape Canaveral to the St....
     Florida
    Florida

    Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
  • Akokisa
    Akokisa

    The Akokisa were the indigenous tribe that lived on Galveston Bay and the lower Trinity River and San Jacinto River rivers in Texas. They are regarded as a band of the Atakapa Indians, closely related to the Atakapa of Lake Charles, Louisiana....
  • Alabama
    Alabama (people)

    The Alabama or Alibamu are a Southeastern tribes people of Native Americans in the United States.The Alabama language is part of the Muskogean languages language family, as is the language of the Creek people and Choctaw people, with whom the Alabama also share cultural features....
     Alabama
    Alabama

    Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west....
  • Apalachee
    Apalachee

    The Apalachee are an Native Americans in the United States that lived in Apalachee Province, Florida, until the tribe was largely destroyed and dispersed in the 18th century....
     Florida
  • Atakapa
    Atakapa

    The Atakapa were a Southeastern tribes of Native Americans in the United States tribes and with a common language that lived along the Gulf of Mexico....
  • Atayos - see Adai
  • Bidai
  • Biloxi Mississippi
    Mississippi

    Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....
  • Caddo
    Caddo

    The Caddo Nation is a confederacy of several Southeastern tribes Native Americans in the United States tribes, who, in the 16th century, inhabited much of what is now East Texas, western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma....
     Arkansas
    Arkansas

    Arkansas is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States of the United States. Arkansas shares a border with six states, with its eastern border largely defined by the Mississippi River....
    , Louisiana, Oklahoma
    Oklahoma

    Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....
    , Texas
    Texas

    Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
  • Calusa
    Calusa

    The Calusa, sometimes spelled Caloosa, Calos, Carlos or Caalus, were a Native Americans in the United States group that lived on the coast and along the inner waterways of Florida's southwest coast....
     Florida
  • Catawba
    Catawba (tribe)

    The Catawba are a sovereign and recognized nation, not a tribe, of Native Americans in the United States, in the Southeast United States, along the border between North Carolina and South Carolina....
      South Carolina
    South Carolina

    South Carolina is a U.S. state in the Southern United States of the United States. It borders Georgia to the south and North Carolina to the north....
  • Chatot
    Chatot

    Chatot may refer to:*Chatot , a Native American tribe of the Southeastern US*Chatot , a List of Pok?mon #Chatot...
  • Chawasha
  • Chesapeake Virginia
    Virginia

    The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state....
  • Cherokee
    Cherokee

    The Cherokee are a Native Americans in the United States people orginally from the Southeastern United States . They are linguistically connected to speakers of the Iroquoian language....
      North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee; later Oklahoma
    Oklahoma

    Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....
  • Cheraw
    Cheraw (tribe)

    The Cheraw , were a tribe of Siouan-speaking Indigenous peoples of the Americas first encountered by Hernando De Soto in 1540. The name they called themselves is lost to history but the Cherokee called them ani-suwa'ii and the Catawba sara ....
     North Carolina
  • Chiaha
    Chiaha

    Chiaha was a Native Americans in the United States chiefdom located in the lower French Broad River valley in modern East Tennessee, in the southeastern United States....
  • Chickahominy
    Chickahominy (tribe)

    The Chickahominy are a tribe of Native Americans in the United States who primarily live in Charles City County, Virginia and New Kent County, Virginia counties in the Richmond-Petersburg Richmond, Virginia-Petersburg, Virginia area in the U.S....
     Virginia
    Virginia

    The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state....
  • Chickamauga
  • Chickasaw
    Chickasaw

    The Chickasaw are Native Americans in the United States people originally from the Southeastern United States . They are of the Muskogean linguistic group....
     Mississippi, Tennessee; later Oklahoma
  • Chitimacha
    Chitimacha

    The Chitimacha are a Native Americans in the United States group that lives in the United States state of Louisiana, mainly in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana....
     Louisiana
  • Choctaw
    Choctaw

    The Choctaw are a Native Americans in the United States people originally from the Southeastern United States . They are of the Muskogean languages group....
      Mississippi, Alabama, and parts of Louisiana; later Oklahoma
  • Creek Alabama, Georgia; Oklahoma, Georgia
    Georgia (U.S. state)

    Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
  • Coahuiltecan
    Coahuiltecan

    Coahuiltecan is a general name for a group of people who previously lived in the southern Texas region near the Rio Grande river. The earliest Spanish explorers to make contact with the natives in this region describe a prosperous and friendly people....
     Texas
  • Comecrudo Texas, northern Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
  • Coushatta
    Coushatta

    The Coushatta are a Native Americans in the United States people living primarily in the United States state of Louisiana. Most Coushatta live in Allen Parish, Louisiana, just north of the town of Elton, Louisiana, Louisiana, though a smaller number share a reservation near Livingston, Texas, Texas with the Alabama ....
      Louisiana
  • Coharie
    Coharie

    The Coharie are a Native Americans in the United States Tribe who descend from the Neusiok Indians on the Little Coharie River, in Sampson County, North Carolina and Harnett County, North Carolina....
      North Carolina
  • Congaree
    Congaree (tribe)

    The Congaree were a group of Native Americans in the United Statess who lived along the Congaree River in what is now central South Carolina. They spoke a Siouan language, possibly related to, but distinct from Catawba....
     South Carolina
  • Cusabo
    Cusabo

    The Cusabo were a group of Native Americans in the United Statess who lived along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in what is now South Carolina, approximately between present-day Charleston, South Carolina and the Savannah River....
  • Garza
    Garza

    Garza is a Galician noble surname and the Spanish language equivalent of heron. Garza has also become a part of many placenames.Garza was the surname of many Sephardic Jews that settled in Monterrey, Nuevo Le?n and the name is still found in many famous people from that Mexican state....
     Texas, northern Mexico
  • Guale
    Guale

    Guale was a Native Americans in the United States chiefdom that became part of Spanish Florida's missionary system in the late 16th century. They lived along the coast of present-day Georgia and the Sea Islands....
  • Hitchiti
    Hitchiti

    The Hitchiti was a Muskogean tribe formerly residing chiefly in a town of the same name on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River, 4 miles below Chiaha, and possessing a narrow strip of good land bordering on the river, in west Georgia ....
     Georgia, Alabama, Florida
  • Houma
    Houma Tribe

    The Houma Tribe of Indians, or more properly, The United Houma Nation are native to the Louisiana parishes of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana and West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, about 100 miles north of the town of Houma, Louisiana named for them....
      Louisiana


Southern Cult Solar Cross
  • Iswa
  • Jaega Florida
  • Jobe Florida
  • Koasati
  • Lumbee
    Lumbee

    The Lumbee are a Native Americans in the United States tribe of North Carolina, though their origins are disputed. The name "Lumbee" is derived from the region near the Lumber River that winds through Robeson County, North Carolina....
      North Carolina
  • Mattaponi
    Mattaponi

    The Mattaponi tribe traces its history back to the Powhatan Confederation of tribes led by Chief Powhatan. The native people currently have a written language due to a recent resurgence of culture but traditionally recorded their historic events through storytelling and symbolic drawings....
      Virginia
  • Mamulique Texas, northern Mexico
  • Meherrin
    Meherrin

    The Meherrin Nation is one of eight state-recognized Nations of Native Americans in the United States in North Carolina. They received formal state recognition in 1986....
      North Carolina
  • Mikasuki (Miccosukee) Florida
  • Mobile
  • Monacan
    Monacan

    The Monacan are a group of people of mixed ancestry recognized as a Native Americans in the United States tribe by the state of Virginia in the United States....
      Virginia
  • Nansemond
    Nansemond

    Nansemond refers to a group of people of mixed ancestry, who have been recognized as a Native Americans of the United States tribe by the Virginia, along with five other tribes in the state....
      Virginia
  • Natchez
    Natchez people

    The Natchez are a Native Americans in the United States people who originally lived in the Natchez Bluffs area, near the present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi....
     Mississippi, Louisiana
  • Nottaway, Virginia
  • Ofo
    OFO

    Ofo may refer to:*Orbiting Frog Otolith*Ofo Language an indigenous language of the lower Mississippi Valley....
  • Pamlico
    Pamlico

    The Pamlico were a Native Americans in the United States people of North Carolina, U.S.A.. They spoke an Algonquian language also known as Pamlico or Carolina Algonquian language....
     (North Carolina
    North Carolina

    North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....
    )
  • Pamunkey
    Pamunkey

    The Pamunkey Native American tribe is one of two existing tribes in Virginia that were part of the Powhatan. They inhabited the coastal tidewater of Virginia near Chesapeake Bay....
      Virginia
  • Pee Dee
    Pee Dee (tribe)

    The Pee Dee tribe are a nation of Native Americans in the United States of the southeast United States. The Pee Dee River and the Pee Dee region of South Carolina were named for the nation....
      South Carolina, North Carolina
  • Pensacola
  • Rappahannock
    Rappahannock County, Virginia

    Rappahannock County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, "Commonwealth " — of Virginia. As of the United States Census, 2000, the population was 6,983....
     Virginia
  • Saponi
    Saponi

    Saponi, is the name of one of the eastern Siouan tribes related to the Tutelo, Occaneechi, Monacan , Manahoac and other eastern Siouan peoples, whose ancestral homeland is in North Carolina and Virginia....
  • Seminole Florida; Oklahoma
  • Taensa
    Taensa

    The Taensa were a people of northeastern Louisiana, specifically on Lake Saint Joseph west of the Mississippi River between the Yazoo River and Saint Catherine Creek settlements in what is present-day Tensas Parish, Louisiana, as reported by Nicolas de la Salle in 1682....
  • Tawasa
  • Tequesta
    Tequesta

    The Tequesta Native Americans in the United States tribe, at the time of first European contact, occupied an area along the southeastern Atlantic coast of Florida....
     Florida
  • Timucua
    Timucua

    The Timucua were an Native Americans in the United States people who lived in First Coast and North Central Florida Florida and southeast Georgia ....
     (Utina) Florida, Georgia
    • Acuera
      Acuera

      The Acuera were a Timucua people who flourished in north central Florida at the time of European arrival in the 16th Century but disappeared within a hundred years, possibly as a result of diseases brought by the explorers and later missionaries....
       Florida
    • Agua Dulce (tribe) Florida
    • Cascange Georgia
    • Icafui (tribe) Georgia
    • Mocama
      Mocama

      Mocama was a Native Americans in the United States chiefdom that became part of Spanish Florida's missionary system in the late 16th century. The Mocama spoke a Timucua language language....
      • Saturiwa Florida
      • Tacatacuru Georgia
    • Northern Utina Florida, Georgia
    • Ocale Florida
    • Potano
      Potano

      The Potano tribe lived in north-central Florida at the time of first European contact. Their territory included what is now Alachua County, Florida, the northern half of Marion County, Florida and the western part of Putnam County, Florida....
       Florida
    • Yui (tribe) Georgia
    • Yustaga
      Yustaga

      Yustaga may refer to:*The Yustaga, a Native American tribe that lived in the area of northern Florida surrounding the Suwannee River in the 1500s....
       Florida, Georgia
    • Yufera Georgia
  • Tocobaga
    Tocobaga

    Tocobaga is the name of a group of Native Americans in the United Statess who lived in chiefdoms along the middle Gulf of Mexico coast of the Florida peninsula at the time of European colonization of the Americas in the 16th century....
     Florida
  • Topachula Florida
  • Tuscarora
    Tuscarora (tribe)

    The Tuscarora are an Native Americans in the United States tribe with members in New York, Canada, and North Carolina. The Tuscarora had actually emigrated from the region now known as New York to the region now known as Eastern The Carolinas prior to the arrival of Europeans in North America, but had their first encounter with Europeans in...
     North Carolina, Virginia; later, New York
  • Tuskegee
  • Tutelo
    Tutelo

    Tutelo was a Siouan tribe, closely related to the Monacan and Manahoac peoples known to be living above the Fall Line in Virginia by 1607.The Tutelo first appear in 1671, when the Batts and Fallam expedition visited "Totero Town" near what is now Salem, Virginia....
  • Tunica
    Tunica

    Tunica may refer to:* Tunica spoken by the Tunica-Biloxi Native Americans in the United States* Tunica, a flowering plant genus now included in Petrorhagia...
     Mississippi
  • Waccamaw
    Waccamaw

    The Waccamaw Indians of South Carolina, distinct from the Waccamaw Siouan Indians of North Carolina, are a state recognized tribe of Native Americans in the United States in South Carolina....
      North Carolina, South Carolina
  • Westo
    Westo

    The Westo were a Native Americans in the United States tribe of the 17th century. They probably spoke an Iroquoian languages language. They were called Chichimeco by the Spanish, and, possibly, Richahecrian by Virginians....
     Virginia, South Carolina
  • Woccon
  • Yamasee
    Yamasee

    The Yamasee were a Native Americans in the United States tribe that lived in coastal region of present-day northern Florida and southern Georgia near the Savannah River....
  • Yuchi
    Yuchi

    The Yuchi, also spelled Euchee and Uchee, are a Native Americans in the United States Indian tribe previously living in the eastern Tennessee River valley in Tennessee, northern Georgia , and northern Alabama, who now primarily live in the northeastern Oklahoma area....


  • Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
    Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas

    Ethnography commonly classify indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada into ten geographical regions with shared culture traits . The following list groups peoples by their region of origin, followed by the current location....
  • Great Basin tribes
    Great Basin tribes

    The Great Basin tribes of Native Americans in the United States occupied an area of some 400,000 mile? , between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada , in what is now Nevada, and parts of Oregon, California, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah....
  • Eastern Woodlands tribes
    Eastern Woodlands tribes

    The Eastern Woodlands was a cultural area of the indigenous peoples of North America. The Eastern Woodlands extended roughly from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River, and from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico, which is now the eastern United States and Canada....