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Episode 73, Native Americans 13, the Southeast.

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Having spent the last three episodes dealing with one of the richest areas

of Native American history, the Northeast Woodlands, it's time to cover something different.

We covered many tribes that we've already dealt with extensively and spent a great portion of

the last episode episode properly introducing the

Iroquois into the narrative, but this time we turned towards further down at the Atlantic

coast to cover the southeast. We'll begin, as always, with a quote from Alvin Josephes,

the Indian Heritage of America.

Quote,

The southeastern portion of the present-day United States, from the Atlantic coast to the lower Mississippi Valley and from Tennessee to the Gulf of Mexico,

was the homeland of many populous tribes of several language families, who lived in farming towns,

formed a number of strong confederacies, some under absolute leaders, and possessed a rich

and complex culture with roots in dynamic and accomplished mound- building societies of the past.

A large part of the region was occupied by the tribes of the Muscoagian branch of the Gulf language stock.

They included the creeks, the Hitchitis and Yamesees in Georgia, Seminolas and Apalachis in Florida, Alabama's and mobiles in

Alabama, Kochdaws and Chickasaws and Humas in Mississippi, other tribes related to the Muskegian, both by language and culture,

were the Timukas of northeastern Florida and the Tunicus and Chittimacas of Louisiana.

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