Northeaster Native Americans

The Native Americans that inhabited the eastern third of what is now the United State, also called the Northeast Woodlands Tribe spread over what is now New England, the Atlantic states as far south as Virginia, the Ohio valley, the Great Lakes, and Canadian territory about 100 miles north of Lake Erie and Ontario. They engaged in farming, hunting, gathering, and fishing simultaneously.

In the northern region, from what is now Lake Superior to northern New England and Maritime Canada, grew forests of abundant trees, including spuce, pine, birch, beech, oak, maples, hickory, elm, basswood, and ash. These were one of their major sources for the creating of their most necessary tools: houses, containers, canoes, bows and arrows, ritual and subsistence equipment. Many of the trees also provided food: nuts and fruits. The forests also were the habitat of their daily of seasonal hunt as in them lived animal resources as bear, wolf, fox, moose, deer, along with many other smaller game animals and birds. From the lakes, women and men fished several kinds of pray, while along the ocean shores numerous amounts of shellfish were regularly harvested.

Farming techniques there were designed to exploit the land quickly rather than to develop permanent settlement, as their agricultural societies were more mobile. They shared the largest of the language groups, which was favorable for their mobility.

As far as religion: It went all the way from Shamans, spirits, guardian spirits, medicine societies, agricultural ceremonies, to the False Face Society (Iroquois). Warriors sought after guardian spirits and mystical help, either in dreams or during vision expeditions. Shamans were the main curers, although there also existed among some nations medicine societies.

With all this said, we can assume that they were a noticeably advanced and organized social entity as they divided the tasks between all the civilizations spread around the Norh-Eastern sector. They managed to mark the beginning of the majority of the accomplishments that we have in the United States today; which from all of them, the main purpose is to survive and progress.