Native American Nations of the Northeastern US - Part XIV

The American Northeast has seen all of the following Native American Nations at one time in the last 250 to 14,000 years. They migrated from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest of Canada and America to criss-cross the eastern half of what is now the United States.

Some of the following nations or tribes joined other tribes and some tribes split and formed new names for themselves. Europeans that entered North America muddied the waters further by giving some of the bands they encountered odd nicknames.

Abenaki, Algonquin, Beothuk, Delaware, Erie, Fox, Fox & Sauk, The Fox People, Half Breeds, Huron, Illinois, Iroquois, Kickapoo, Long Tail and/or Cat People, Mahican, Mohican, Mascouten, Massachuset, Mattabesic, Menominee, Metis, Metoac, Miami, Micmaq, Mohawk, Mohegan/Mohican, Montagnais, Narragansett, Naked People, Nauset, Neutrals, Niantic, Nipissing, Nipmuc, Ojibwe, Oneida, Ottawa, Pennacook, Pequot, Pocumtuck, Potawatomi, Sauk, Shawnee, Susquehannock, Tionontati, Tuscarora, Wampanoag, Wappinger, Wenro, Winnebago.

There are likely others.

It is difficult to know the correct names that The People gave themselves in the Northeastern United States.

Long. cold winters with lessening resources also helped to drive the Native peoples westward and southward. However, they learned to make maple syrup candy in the winter and shared their recipe: MAPLE SUGAR CAMP . They used tree barks and animal hides to cover their camp lodges and storage areas in the cold climate..

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Other Pages in the Series

• Native Americans Part I
• Native Americans Part II
• Native Americans Part III
• Native Americans Part IV
• Native Americans Part V
• Native Americans Part VI
• Native Americans Part VII
• Native Americans Part VIII
• Native Americans Part IX
• Native Americans Part X
• Native Americans Part XI
• Native Americans Part XII
• Native Americans Part XIII
• Native Americans Part XIV
• National Pow Wow of the United States
• Native Americans in Western Novels

NATIVE AMERICAN ANTIONSIN THE US NORTHEAST

New York

• Tuscarora Nation .
• Oneida Indian Nation of New York .
• St. Regis Mohawk Council Chiefs .
• Onondaga Nation .
• Seneca Nation of Indians
• Cayuga Indian Nation .
• Tonawanda Band of Senecas
• Poospatuck
• Shinnecock

Pennsylvania

• Lenape
• Susquehannock
• Nanticoke
• Shawnee

New Jersey

• Ramapough Lenape Nation (state recognized)
• Nanaticoke Lenni- Lennapes of New Jersey, Inc. (state recognized)
• Powhatan-Renape Nation (state recognized)
• Sand Hill Band of Indians

New Hampsire

Abenaki Nation

Vermont

Abenaki Nation, including the separate St. Francis/Skokoki Band of Abenakis of Vermont

Rhode Island

Narragansett

Massachusetts

Wampanoag or Aquinnah Band of Gay Head, MA

US FED. NON-RECOGNIZED

• Nipmuc Tribal Council of Massachusetts (Hassanamisco Band)
• Nipmuc Tribal Council of Massachusetts (Chaubunagungamang Band)
• Mashpee Tribe
• Narragansett Tribal of Indians

Connecticut

• Mashantucket Pequot Tribe
• Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut

US FED. NON-RECOGNIZED

• E. Pequots of Connecticut
• Nipmuc Indian Bands
• Paucatuck E. Pequots
• Scaticook Bands

Maine

• Aroostook Band of Micmaq Indians
• Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians
• Penobscot Nation of Old Town
• Passamaquoddy Indian Township Reservation