SOUTH EASTERN NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

• Humid and fertile agricultural region
• Animals, plants, and crops of the area provided food, clothing, and shelter.
• Houses, shelters, and homes depended on the materials available to them.
• Perfect for growing maize, beans, squash, and tobacco.
• River valleys, mountains, and swamps are in the South East.

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY CONTINUED

• Nomadic hurders, fishers, and farmers. (Because of the weather)
• Mountains, rivers, and forests in the North.
• Grasses and swamps in the South including the Everglades.
• Hot in the summer and mild in the winter.

PRE- COLUMBIAN LIFESTYLE

• Primarily farmers, but they depended on hunting and fishing.
• Lived in various types of houses with thatched roofs.
• Falcons and jaguars are often in their art.
• Had ties with Mexico

PRE- COLUMBIAN TRIBES

• Chickasaws,Choctaws, Creeks, Delawares, Cherokees, Tuscaroras,
• Mississippians, Natchez, Seminoles.

POST- COLUMBIAN LIFESTYLE

• Cultivation of tobacco and cotton became more common
• Many people in the tribes had died of diseases brought by Europeans
• Europeans forced the natives to allow them to take over their land

POST- COLUMBIAN LIFESTYLE

• The Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and
• Seminole became the Five Civilized Tribes.
• Adopted many of the colonists customs.
• The Five Civilized tribes all spoke a variant of the Muskogean language

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