Facts about the Northeast American Indian Tribes The Northeast American Indians are also referred to as Eastern Woodland Indians because most lived in the forest. The Northeast region of North America is a large area with many variations of climate, landscape, and natural resources. These differences...
Indian Tribes in Northeast U.S. Seek Recognition from Federal Government.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)Adams, Jim
and military honours were the primary gauge of a man’s status within many tribes. Raids provided room for expansion as well as captive women and children; such captives were often adopted into the tribe in order to replace family members lost to death or capture. Captive adult men, however...
The neighbouring Iroquois, who had a different clan system and a separate language also had a different method of building their homes. Unlike most tribes living in the Eastern Woodland Indian territory, the Iroquois built long communal dwellings capable of housing more than a dozen families on ra...
(an officialdesignationfor those groups that traditionally have occupied a low position within the Indiancastesystem); these people are collectively called Kols orDoms. Scheduled Tribes (an official category embracing indigenous peoples who fall outside the Indian social system), such as the Raji, ...
Long before the British first established permanent settlements in what was to be called New England, the Native American tribes of North America had already occupied the land for hundreds of years. In fact, much of what the European settlers learned about harvesting crops and surviving in a new...
One Yakut lineage falls into the sub-haplogroup Z3a, described so far only in Tibeto-Burman speaking tribal populations of northeastern India [44]. These populations originally descended from ancient tribes of northwestern China and subsequently moved to the south, admixing with southern peoples. ...
Europe and South America are each inhabited by a single extant bear species, whereas multiple species exist in North America and Asia, and in some of places there is wide overlap of two species. However, there is just one place in this global distribution where historically three bear species...
Slash and burn system is a widely sustainable faiming system of north-eastern hill tribes of India. The vegetational scenario of jhum fields expresses only the dominancy of weedy species alongwith bamboo and gets arrested at that stage because of successive clear felling for jhum. Chromol...