United States History Map . Indians. Cultures and peoples of North America. Native American Regions. Native american cultural regions. American Indians, Culture Areas, Tribes. Northeast Culture Area This area covers the territory from the Atlantic seaboard across the Appalachians to the Mississippi Valley, and north to south, from the Great Lakes to the Tidewater region of present-day Virginia and North Carolina, and beyond the Cumberland River in Tennessee.
The tribes of this region at the time of Contact, when the explorers came, can be organized into five subgroups, based on variations in lifeways, and their regions: 1) the Nova Scotia, New England, Long Island, Hudson Valley and Delaware Valley Algonquian-speaking tribes, 2) the New York and Ontario Iroquoian-speaking tribes, 3) the Great Lakes Algonquians, 4) the Prairie Algonquians, 5) and the southern fringe tribes, both Algonquians and Iroquoians. Both the Iroquois and Algonquians had strong tribal identities above and beyond the basic nuclear families. Southeast Culture Area Southwest Culture Area Two essential Indian life-styles developed in the region: agrarian and nomadic. Great Basin Culture Area. Native American Chart. As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of the ThinkQuest global community: Students - For your limitless creativity and innovation, which inspires us all.
Teachers - For your passion in guiding students on their quest. Partners - For your unwavering support and evangelism. Parents - For supporting the use of technology not only as an instrument of learning, but as a means of creating knowledge. We encourage everyone to continue to “Think, Create and Collaborate,” unleashing the power of technology to teach, share, and inspire. Best wishes, The Oracle Education Foundation. NativeAmericanMyths. Native Americans. Native American Cultures. Many different Indian groups lived in North and South America. Five basic culture groups lived in what is now the United States. The five groups lived in different regions of the country and used the natural resources in that area.
Because they had different natural resources, Indian groups had different languages, foods, houses, clothes, and different beliefs. Many different tribes lived in each of the five areas. Look at the map of Native American Culture Areas and the information describing their use of natural resources. Northwest Cultures These cultures built wooden lodges for their homes and also used bark from trees for their clothing. California - Intermountain Cultures Tepees and wickiups (wooden poles with a thatched roof) were used for shelter. Southwest Cultures These people lived in shelters known as pueblos that were made from clay. Plains Cultures.