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Native American Culture Areas

North America

Native American cultural areas by geography

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A map of North American and the Artic showing the locations of native cultural areas.

Artic is located at the top of Canada, the west coast of Greenland and in island areas in between. California fills most of the state as well as Baja California in Mexico. Eastern Woodlands, Northeast extends from Tennessee and Missouri in the south, the Great Lakes and southeastern Canada to the North, and the entire east coast down to North Carolina. Eastern Woodlands, Southeast includes very small pockets along the U.S. southeast coast. Great Basin includes much of Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and Nevada, as well as eastern California and Oregon. Northwest coast includes island chains off Washington, coastal western Canada, and Alaska. Plains encompasses much of the center of the United States and Canada, extending from Edmonton to the north and San Antonio to the south. Plateau includes eastern Oregon and Washington, northern Idaho, and parts of southern Alberta and British Columbia. Southwest includes most of Arizona, New Mexico, southern Texas, and northern Mexico. Subarctic consists of most of northern Canada below the arctic circle.

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Native American Culture Areas

Arctic

California

Eastern Woodlands, Northeast

Great Basin

Northwest Coast

Plains

Plateau

Southwest

Subarctic

Alaska
45.7%1.02%46.0%
Arizona
8.41%91.6%
Utah
98.8%1.20%
Yukon
6.48%92.2%
Northwest Territories
13.2%69.8%
District of Columbia
100%
Idaho
78.0%22.0%
New Hampshire
99.9%
Rhode Island
96.5%
Vermont
100%
Washington
65.1%
Wyoming
62.6%37.4%
Nunavut
35.9%6.18%
Montana
9.49%74.5%16.0%
Maine
99.2%
North Dakota
1.37%98.6%
Kentucky
82.5%
Nova Scotia
78.9%
Virginia
45.2%
Delaware
96.5%
Saskatchewan
38.0%62.0%
West Virginia
64.1%
Nebraska
100%
Texas
50.9%39.0%
Missouri
12.0%82.4%
North Carolina
27.2%
Oregon
53.9%18.0%
New Brunswick
99.0%
New Mexico
2.83%97.2%
Kansas
100%
Wisconsin
96.4%3.59%
British Columbia
4.67%18.1%57.3%
Newfoundland and Labrador
10.1%67.6%
New Jersey
98.7%
Michigan
100%
Alberta
31.3%4.22%64.5%
Connecticut
99.4%
Pennsylvania
100%
Colorado
60.5%25.0%14.5%
Nevada
99.9%
Massachusetts
98.0%
New York
99.5%
Maryland
96.7%
Québec
11.3%64.2%
Manitoba
10.8%7.55%81.6%
Oklahoma
92.6%
Tennessee
11.6%
Ontario
47.4%52.5%
California
77.4%20.3%1.70%
Arkansas
35.1%
South Dakota
100%
Ohio
100%
Indiana
100%
Minnesota
44.4%55.6%
Iowa
27.3%72.7%
Illinois
98.8%
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