Northeast Woodlands Tribes
Ethnographers commonly classify indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada into ten geographical regions with shared cultural traits (called cultural areas). The following list groups peoples by the Northeast Woodlands region. See the List of Native American Tribal Entities below.
Northeast Woodland Tribes
- Abenaki
- Eastern Abenaki: Quebec, Maine, and New Hampshire[2]
- Western Abenaki: Quebec, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont[2]
- Accohannock see Nanticoke
- Algonquian lower Saint Lawrence River
- Anishinaabe (Anishinape, Anicinape, Neshnabé, Nishnaabe) (see also Subarctic, Plains)
- Assateague, Maryland[3]
- Beothuk, Newfoundland[2]
- Choptank Indian Tribe, Maryland[3]
- Conoy, Virginia[3]
- Erie, Pennsylvania, New York[2]
- Etchemin Quebec (Maliseet)
- Fox, Michigan,[2] later Iowa, Oklahoma
- Hatteras
- Ho-Chunk, Wisconsin, later Nebraska
- Honniasont, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia
- Hopewell Ohio and Black River region
- Huron/Wyandot Ontario south of Georgian Bay, now Oklahoma and Wendake, Quebec
- Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri[2]
- Iroquois, Ontario, Quebec, and New York[2]
- Kickapoo, Michigan,[2] Illinois, Missouri, later Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Mexico
- Laurentian/St. Lawrence Iroquoians
- Lenni-Lenape Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, now Ontario and Oklahoma
- Maliseet, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Maine[2]
- Mascouten, Michigan[2]
- Massachusett, Massachusetts
- Mattaponi, Virginia[4]
- Menominee, Michigan and Wisconsin[2]
- Mingo, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia
- Mahican Confederacy, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont[2]
- Housatonic, Massachusetts, New York[5]
- Mahican, Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont[2][6]
- Wappani (Wappinger), New York[5]
- Wyachtonok, Connecticut, New York[5]
- Massachusett, Massachusetts[7]
- Mi'kmaq (Micmac), New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Quebec[2]
- Mohegan, Connecticut
- Montauk, New York
- Nanticoke, Delaware and Maryland[2]
- Narragansett, Rhode Island
- Neutral, Ontario[2]
- Niantic, coastal Connecticut[7]
- Nipmuck, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island[7]
- Ocaneechee, Virginia[8]
- Pamlico
- Pasquotank
- Passamaquoddy, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Maine[2]
- Patuxent, Maryland[3]
- Penobscot, Maine
- Pequot
- Petun, Ontario[2]
- Piscataway Indian Nation, Maryland[3]
- Pocumtuc, western Massachusetts[7]
- Pokanoket (Pokanoket Tribe of the Wampanoag Nation), Rhode Island and Massachusetts[7]
- Poospatuck, New York
- Potawatomi, Michigan
- Powhatan, Virginia[3]
- Quinnipiac Connecticut, eastern New York, northern New Jersey, Long Island
- Hammonasset
- Mattabesec
- Mattatuck
- Menunkatuck
- Meriden (tribe)
- Mioonkhtuck
- Naugatuck, New York[7]
- Nehantic
- Paugusset, New York[7]
- Podunk, New York[7]
- Potatuck, New York[7]
- Totoket
- Tunxis, New York[7]
- Wangunk, New York[7]
- Wepawaug, New York[7]
- Ramapough Mountain Indians, New Jersey
- Rappahannock, Virginia[4]
- Sauk, Michigan,[2] later Iowa, Oklahoma
- Schaghticoke, western Connecticut
- Secotan
- Shawnee Ohio,[2] West Virginia, Pennsylvania, later Oklahoma
- Shinnecock, Long Island, New York[7]
- Sissipahaw
- Souriquoian
- Susquehannock, Maryland and Pennsylvania[2]
- Tarrantine (Tarranteen), see Abenaki, Micmac
- Tauxenent, Virginia[4]
- Unquachog, Long Island, New York[7]
- Wampanoag, Massachusetts
- Wawenoc
- Wenro, New York[2]
- Wenrohronon, Pennsylvania and New York
- Wyandot, Huron, Ontario south of Georgian Bay, now Oklahoma and Wendake, Quebec
Tribal Lists
- Arctic
- Subarctic
- California
- Northeast Woodlands
- Great Basin
- Plateau
- Northwest Coast
- Plains
- Southeast
- Southwest
- Alpha Tribal Listing
- State Tribal Listing