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In studying indigenous people, the American Indians of the Southwest culture area traditionally lived in what are now the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Today more than one fifth of Native Americans in the United States continue to live in this region, mostly in the states of Arizona and...
In studying indigenous cultures, when Europeans arrived in the Americas, the Eastern Woodlands Cultivators (Northeast Indians) lived in what are now the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. The Northeast culture area reaches from the present-day Canadian provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and the Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and...
In studying indigenous people, the Plains Indians traditionally lived on the Great Plains of the United States and Canada. The Great Plains is a vast grassland at the center of North America, reaching from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River and from southern Canada to the Rio Grande in...
In studying indigenous people, the California Foragers traditionally occupied an area that encompasses most of what are now the U.S. state of California and the Baja Peninsula of Mexico. In the east the Sierra Nevada mountain range forms a natural barrier. The lower Coast Range runs parallel to the Pacific...
In studying indigenous people, the American Indians of the Great Basin culture area lived in the desert region that reaches from the Rocky Mountains west to the Sierra Nevada. The Columbia Plateau lies to the north, and the Mojave Desert is to the south. The Great Basin encompasses almost all...
In studying indigenous people, the Interior Plateau Foragers traditionally inhabited the high plateau region between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Cascade Range and Canadian Coast Ranges on the west. It includes parts of the present-day U.S. states of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington and the Canadian province...
In studying indigenous people, the American Indians of the Northwest Coast traditionally lived on a narrow belt of Pacific coastland and offshore islands. The Northwest Coast culture area stretches from what is now the southern border of Alaska to northwestern California. The Pacific Ocean is the western boundary. To the...
In studying indigenous people, the culture area south of the Arctic is called the Subarctic. It includes most of what are now Alaska and Canada (excluding the Maritime Provinces—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island—which are part of the Northeast culture area). Subarctic peoples from Alaska are often collectively...
As Europeans moved beyond exploration and into colonization of the Americas, they brought changes to virtually every aspect of the land and its indigenous people, from trade and hunting to warfare and personal property. European goods, ideas, and diseases shaped the changing continent. Indigenous People These are the indigenous groups...