Eastern Woodlands indigenous people belong to two unrelated language families, Iroquoian and Algonquian.
Geographical Locations:
Iroquoians occupied:
Algonquians extended from:
- Much of southern Ontario,
- Northern Ohio,
- Pennsylvania and New York, and
- The St Lawrence Valley as far east as the Quebec City area.
Algonquians extended from:
- Lake Superior north of Lake Huron to the Ottawa Valley, and
- East through New England and the Atlantic Provinces to the coast.
The Iroquois people consisted of:
The Algonquian people consisted of:
- Erie
- Neutral
- Wenro
- Petun
- Huron
- Seneca,
- Cayuga,
- Onondaga,
- Oneida,
- Mohawk
- Tuscarora - joined in the 18th century to form the Six Nations.
The Algonquian people consisted of:
- Ojibwa
- Ottawa
- Nipissing
- Algonquin
- Abenaki
- Maliseet
- Micmac