I understand your professor has been discussing several eastern woodland Indian tribes in your study of native American cultures as you has probably learned the eastern gets that name from forestcovered area of eastern usa where they lived the earliest woodland culture date back 9000 years but group we’ll focus on datesback only 700 ad we now call the native American the Mississippian culture ‘cause they settled in the mississippian river valley
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