Southeastern Woodlands Culture

Southeastern Woodlands Cultural Traits

1.   Sedentary hunter/farmers
.  Dry farmed corn, beans, and squash
.  Hunted and fished
2.   Practiced Animistic religion
.   Strict incest taboos
.   Puberty rites of passage:
.   Polygamous
.   Shaman based
3.   Near constant state of war including coup counting
4.   Communal
5.   Wove baskets and made pottery
6.   Usually lived in cabins with each village having a communal round house for ceremonies and to house visitors
7.   Traded extensively with Choctaw/Chickasaw being lingua franca (trade language)

Southeastern Culture languages and tribes:

Phylum / Stock / Family / Language Tribe
Macro-Algonquian / Muskhogean / Muskhogean / Alabaman Alabama (1763)**
Coushatta (1763)**
Kaskinampo
Muklasa (1838)*
Pawotki (1763)**
Tuskegee (1715)*
Macro-Algonquian / Muskhogean / Muskhogean / Choctaw/Chickasaw Acolapissa
Bayougoula
Chakchiuma
Chickasaw
Choctaw
Houma
Mobile
Napochi
Okelusa
Pascagoula
Pensacola
Tohome
Macro-Algonquian / Muskhogean / Muskhogean / Cusaba Cusabo (1720)*
Macro-Algonquian / Muskhogean / Muskhogean / Hitchiti Apalachicola (1836)*
Chiaha (1870)*
Hitchiti (1838)*
Miccosiki (1817)**
Oconee (1716)**
Okmulgee (1836)*
Sawokli (1716)**
Tamathli (1799)*, (1799)**
Yamasee (1730)*, (1730)**
Macro-Algonquian / Muskhogean / Muskhogean / Muskhogean Guale (1715)*
Muskhogee (1715)*, (1814)**
Macro-Algonquian / Uchean / Uchean / Uchean Yuchi (1716)**
 
*     All or part of the tribe confederated into the Creek Confederacy for military purposes against the Georgia Colony in the year shown.  Included in the confederacy were a Shawnee band who joined in 1715.  The Creek Confederacy was indeed formed in 1715, and was not a culture, but rather, an army.

 
**   All or part of the tribe confederated into the Seminole Confederacy for military purposes against the Georgia Colony in the year shown.  Those Muskhogee who joined in 1814 left the Creek Confederacy.  The confederacy removed to Florida in 1750.  They were also joined by surviving Icafui Timucuans and Culusa of the Florida Culture.