Apalachesthumb|Carte ancienne du nord-ouest de la Floride où vivaient les Apalaches. Les Apalaches étaient une tribu amérindienne qui vivait dans la au sein de l'actuel État de Floride jusqu'à ce qu'elle soit en grande partie anéantie et dispersée au . Ils vivaient entre les fleuves Aucilla et Ochlockonee, au nord de la baie Apalachee, et furent rencontrés pour la première fois par des explorateurs espagnols au . Les Apalaches parlaient une langue aujourd'hui éteinte, l'apalachee, documentée par des écrits de la période coloniale espagnole.
SéminolesLes Séminoles sont un peuple autochtone d'Amérique du Nord. Ils résident maintenant en Floride, État dont ils sont originaires, et en Oklahoma. La nation séminole a émergé au ; elle était composée d'Amérindiens des actuels États de Géorgie, du Mississippi, de l'Alabama, et de Floride, le plus souvent issus de la nation Creek mais aussi d'Afro-Américains fuyant l'esclavage de Géorgie (voir Séminoles noirs).
Otos (peuple)The Otoe (Chiwere: Jiwére) are a Native American people of the Midwestern United States. The Otoe language, Chiwere, is part of the Siouan family and closely related to that of the related Iowa, Missouria, and Ho-Chunk tribes. Historically, the Otoe tribe lived as a semi-nomadic people on the Central Plains along the bank of the Missouri River in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri. They lived in elm-bark lodges while they farmed, and used tipis while traveling, like many other Plains tribes.
Moundville Archaeological SiteMoundville Archaeological Site, also known as the Moundville Archaeological Park, is a Mississippian culture archaeological site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County, near the modern city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Extensive archaeological investigation has shown that the site was the political and ceremonial center of a regionally organized Mississippian culture chiefdom polity between the 11th and 16th centuries. The archaeological park portion of the site is administered by the University of Alabama Museums and encompasses , consisting of 29 platform mounds around a rectangular plaza.
Hutte de terreAn earth lodge is a semi-subterranean building covered partially or completely with earth, best known from the Native American cultures of the Great Plains and Eastern Woodlands. Most earth lodges are circular in construction with a dome-like roof, often with a central or slightly offset smoke hole at the apex of the dome. Earth lodges are well-known from the more-sedentary tribes of the Plains such as the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikara, but they have also been identified archaeologically among sites of the Mississippian culture in the eastern United States.
WinnebagosLes Ho-Chunks, en français Puants (Winnebagos comme ils sont généralement nommés en anglais), sont une tribu amérindienne, originaire de ce que l'on nomme aujourd'hui le Wisconsin et l'Illinois, et sont proches par leur langue, le winnebago, et leur civilisation, des autres Sioux. Le nom « Winnebago » est celui que leur donnèrent les tribus algonquiennes voisines, qui signifie à peu près « peuple des eaux dormantes » (langue Anishinaabe : Wiinibiigoo), la signification exacte étant toujours sujette à controverse.
Spiro MoundsSpiro Mounds est l'un des sites archéologiques précolombiens les plus importants des États-Unis. Il est situé en Oklahoma. Situé près de la ville de Spiro dans le comté de Le Flore (Oklahoma), il mesure 60,7 hectares et est protégé par l'Oklahoma Historical Society et ouvert au public. Il est classé au Registre national des lieux historiques. Spiro Mounds est le site archéologique de la civilisation du Mississippi situé le plus à l'ouest.
Green Corn CeremonyThe Green Corn Ceremony (Busk) is an annual ceremony practiced among various Native American peoples associated with the beginning of the yearly corn harvest. Busk is a term given to the ceremony by white traders, the word being a corruption of the Creek word puskita (pusketv) for "a fast". These ceremonies have been documented ethnographically throughout the North American Eastern Woodlands and Southeastern tribes. Historically, it involved a first fruits rite in which the community would sacrifice the first of the green corn to ensure the rest of the crop would be successful.
CherawThe Cheraw people, also known as the Saraw or Saura, were a Siouan-speaking tribe of Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, in the Piedmont area of North Carolina near the Sauratown Mountains, east of Pilot Mountain and north of the Yadkin River. They lived in villages near the Catawba River. Their first European and African contact was with the Hernando De Soto Expedition in 1540. The early explorer John Lawson included them in the larger eastern-Siouan confederacy, which he called "the Esaw Nation.
Coosa chiefdomThe Coosa chiefdom was a powerful Native American paramount chiefdom in what are now Gordon and Murray counties in Georgia, in the United States. It was inhabited from about 1400 until about 1600, and dominated several smaller chiefdoms. The total population of Coosa's area of influence, reaching into present-day Tennessee and Alabama, has been estimated at 50,000. Hernando de Soto and his conquistadors visited Coosa on their expedition through the Southeast United States in 1539–1541, as did participants in Tristán de Luna's expedition in 1560, and Juan Pardo's 1566–1568 expedition.
