Various Algonquian tribes inhabit the Atlantic coastal …
Years: 1540 - 1551
Various Algonquian tribes inhabit the Atlantic coastal regions at the beginning of this age, including the Carolina tribes, the Powhatan Confederacy of Virginia, the Nanticoke of the Delmarva Peninsula, the Unami, Munsee and Unalachtigo “Delaware’” (Lenni Lenape) of the Middle Atlantic, the Mahicans, Mohegans, Pequots, Narragansetts, Wampanoags and Massachusetts of New England, the Abenaki of Maine and the Micmacs of the Canadian Maritimes.
Groups
- Iroquois (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations)
- Abenaki people (Amerind tribe)
- Beothuk people
- Mi'kmaq people (Amerind tribe)
- Osage Nation (Amerind tribe)
- Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans)
- Ojibwa, or Ojibwe, aka or Chippewa (Amerind tribe)
- Lakota, aka Teton Sioux (Amerind tribe)
- Mahican (Amerind tribe)
- Susquehannock (Amerind tribe)
- Narragansett people (Amerind tribe)
- Pequots (Amerind tribe)
- Wampanoag (Amerind tribe)
- Catawba people (Amerind tribe)
- Quapaw, or Arkansas (Amerind tribe)
- Omaha (Amerind tribe)
- Kaw, or Kanza, people (Amerind tribe)
- Mandan (Amerind tribe)
- Hidatsa people (Amerind tribe)
- Crow people, aka Absaroka or Apsáalooke (Amerind tribe)
- Cheyenne people (Amerind tribe)
- Arapaho people (Amerind tribe)
- Gros Ventre or “Atsina” people (Amerind tribe)
- Assiniboine people (Amerind tribe)
- Cree (Amerind tribe)
- Tuscarora (Amerind tribe)
- Kickapoo people (Amerind tribe)
- Potawatomi (Amerind tribe)
- Menominee (Amerind tribe)
- Iowa (Amerind tribe)
- Nanticoke people (Amerind tribe)
- Powhatan (Amerind tribe)
- Tsuu T'ina; also Sarcee, Sarsi, Tsu T'ina, Tsuut'ina (Amerind tribe)
- Mohegan people (Amerind tribe)
- Massachusett people (Amerind tribe)
- Pamlico (Amerind tribe)
- Santee (Amerind tribe)
- Dakota, aka Santee Sioux (Amerind tribe)
- Cherokee, or Tsalagi (Amerind tribe)
- Sauk, or Sac, people (Amerind tribe)
- Miami (Amerind tribe)
- Illinois confederacy, or Illiniwek
- Shawnees, or Shawanos (Amerind tribe)
