Southeast Indian, member of any of the Native American peoples of the southeastern United States. The boundaries of this culture area are somewhat difficult to delineate, because the traditional cultures in the Southeast shared many characteristics with those from neighbouring regions. Thus, most scholars define the region’s eastern and southern boundaries as the …

Dec 19, 2018 · Source: wikimedia.org The name “Iroquois” actually referred to a language rather than in an individual tribe, and included five different tribes that were entirely separate before European colonisation began. These five tribes were the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas.

Like their neighboring tribes, they spoke the Algonquian language and when the British came in 1607 they were prosperous people under the leadership of Chief Powhatan, the Paramount Chief of over 30 neighboring tribes. The first recognized map of the region, Captain John Smith’s map of 1612, indicates the present location of the Upper ...

American Indian languages American Indian tribes North American legends. Vocabulary in Native American Languages: Cree Words Welcome to our Cree vocabulary page! Cree is an Algonquian language, related to other languages like Ojibwe and Mesquakie. We have included twenty basic Cree words here, to compare with related American Indian languages.