Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands, Southeastern cultures, or Southeast Indians are an ethnographic classification for Native Americans who have traditionally inhabited the area now part
Painting of a Choctaw woman by George Catlin
"Poverty point objects," earthenware, believed to be for cooking, Poverty Point
Clay female figurines, Poverty Point
Carved shell gorgets and atlatl weights, Poverty Point
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The Cherokee people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their ancestral homelands, living in town
Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee syllabary, as painted by Henry Inman, c. 1830
Great Smoky Mountains
After the Anglo-Cherokee War, bitterness remained between the two groups. In 1765, Henry Timberlake took three Cherokee chiefs to London meet the Crown and help strengthen the newly declared peace.
Portrait of Major John Norton (Mohawk chief) as Mohawk Chief Teyoninhokarawen by Mather Brown, ca. 1805. Yale Center for British Art (his father was a Cherokee while John Norton adopted by the Mohawks)