Indians of the Americas

by 1797

EASTERN Physiographical Provinces.

Native or Indian peoples, First Nations.

Native American nations and asociations east of the 100th meridian at the arrival of European settlement, who were largely settled agricultural peoples raising corn, beans, squash and wild turkeys they may have numbred over five million before the epidemics struck preceeding the arrival of European exploration and missionary activity.

WESTERN Physiographical Provinces.