- Fact 2 - The Northeast Indians are
the indigenous peoples of the Northeast of North America and
Canada. The Eastern Woodlands was a cultural area of the
indigenous peoples of North America extending roughly from the
Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River, and from the Great
Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico. They inhabited lands of
Woodland and Coast, Lakes and streams and were hunters, fishers
and farmers. Their crops included rice, squash, melons,
pumpkins.
- Fact 3 - Names of Border States:
Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New York
- Fact 4 - Origin of the name of the
state: Based on "verts monts," French for green mountains
- Fact 5 - Features of the area:
Green Mountains
- Fact 6 -
The Indians of Vermont included the Abenaki, Mohican,
Pennacook and the Pocomtuc tribes.
- Fact 7 - The Abenaki tribe were
feared as fierce warriors. The Abenakis is an Algonquian
language speaking Indian tribe. They were one of the five
members of the Wabanaki Confederacy which consisted of the
Abenaki, Míkmaq, Penawapskewi, Pestomuhkati and Wolastoqiyik
tribes
- Fact 8 - The Mohican (also referrred to as
Mahicans) are an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe,
originally settling in the Hudson River Valley in Albany, New
York. After 1680, many moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
- Fact 9 - The Pennacook, aka the
Merrimack and Pawtucket, were an Algonquian-speaking tribe who
farmed maize, corn, and squash. They primarily inhabited the
Merrimack River valley of present-day New Hampshire. They were
closely related to the Abenaki who they often fought with. They
were decimated by European diseases to which they had no
immunity.
- Fact 10 - The Pocomtuc, also Pocumtuck or
Deerfield Indians, originally inhabited western Massachusetts,
especially around the Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers in
Franklin County. They were farmers and fishers, like other
tribes in the area. They fought against the Pequots and the
English colonists in King Phillip's War.
- Fact 11 - 1780 - Last major Indian
raid, led by the British, in Royalton.
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