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Native American Cultural Regions

Inupiat Arctic Arctic Circle
Ocean

Yupik
Tanaina
Aleut

Inuit
Tlingit

Chipewyan
Haida
NORTH AMERICA
Cree
Kwakiutl
Onondaga Micmac
Nootka
Pacific
Ocean Chinook Blackfoot Algonquian
Yakima Ojibway
Palouse Ottawa Abenaki
Tillamook Walla Nez Percé Mandan Mohawk
Walla Crow Huron Oneida Narragansett
Winnebago Cayuga Mohegan
Sioux Sauk Seneca Pequot
Cheyenne Fox Delaware
Pomo Shoshone Pawnee Miami
Arapaho Shawnee Powhatan
Ute
Paiute Osage
Arctic Hopi Kiowa Chickasaw Cherokee
Chumash Navajo
California Zuni Pueblo Creek Atlantic
Wichita
Great Basin Comanche Choctaw Ocean
Papago Natchez
Northeast
Apache Seminole
Northwest Coast
Great Plains
Plateau
Southeast
Southwest
Subarctic
0 750 mi
0 1,000 km
This map shows the major Native American cultural regions
in North America as they were when the Europeans rst
arrived. It also names some of the tribes living in each region.

and 25 feet (7.6 m) wide. Twenty or more families might share
a longhouse. The Haudenosaunee cultivated corn, beans, and
squash—crops they referred to as the Three Sisters. Early French
explorers noted that 6 square miles (15.5 sq. km) of cornfi elds
surrounded each Haudenosaunee village.

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