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Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stocks [The National Atlas of the United States of America (U.S. Dept. of the Interior Geological Survey, Washington DC, 1970)] NORTHEAST: During colonial times the northeastern area of what is now the U.S. was dominated by the Iroquois Nation. This had formed about 1400 as a confederation of five tribes. In 1712 the Tuscarora tribe became part of the Iroquois Nation. Mohawk Oneida Onondaga Cayuga Seneca Tuscarora (after 1712) About twenty other tribes also resided in this region. In 1774 Parliament passed the Quebec Act, transfering to the colony of Canada the legislative control of the land between the Mississippi River and the main ridgeline (the wide wiggly line) of the Appalachian Mountain chain.

European-defined Boundaries between the Colonies
and Indian lands in 1775 [U.S. Dept. of the Interior]

MID-ATLANTIC: The region west of modern-day Pennsylvania and West Virginia was home to the Mingo Shawnees Delawares (displaced during colonial times from eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware) The Indians of Pennsylvania [ExplorePAhistory.com] The site's summary is "The first people to live in Pennsylvania were part of the earliest waves of human migration into the Western hemisphere. William Penn and his fellow colonists upon their arrival encountered native inhabitants who had their own name for this land and their own starting point for its history." This is an educational site with extensive documentation and many annotated links to other sites

SOUTHEAST: The southeast of what is now the U.S. was dominated by the Cherokees Chickasaws Choctaws Creeks Seminole About ten other tribes also resided in this region.

European-defined Boundaries between the Colonies
and Indian lands in 1775 [U.S. Dept. of the Interior]