Native Peoples of the Northeast

From the Series North American Indian Nations

  • Interest Level: Grade 3 - Grade 5
  • Reading Level: Grade 4

Long before the United States existed as a nation, the Northeast region was home to more than thirty independent American Indian groups. Each group had its own language, political system, and culture. Their ways of life depended on the climate, landscape, and natural resources of the areas where they lived.

• The Lenape carved tulip tree trunks into canoes that held as many as fifty people.
• The Huron used moose hair to stitch delicate patterns on clothing and on birch bark boxes.
• The Menominee combined cornmeal, dried deer meat, maple sugar, and wild rice to make a traveling snack called pemmican.

In the twenty-first century, many American Indians still call the Northeast home. Discover what the varied nations of the Northeast have in common and what makes each of them unique.

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Interest Level Grade 3 - Grade 5
Reading Level Grade 4
Genre Social Studies
Copyright 2017
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Lerner Publications ™, LernerClassroom
Language English
Number of Pages 48
Publication Date 2016-08-01
Reading Counts! Level 5.6
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS JNF018040, JNF076050, JNF052020
Dewey 974
Graphics 1-color illustrations, Full-color illustrations
Dimensions 7 x 9
Lexile 870
Guided Reading Level X
Features Bibliography/further reading, Glossary, Index, Maps, Reviewed, Sidebars, Table of contents, Teaching Guides, Timeline, Websites, and eSource

Author: Liz Sonneborn

Liz Sonneborn has written more than fifty books for children and adults, including several titles for the North American Indian Nations series. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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North American Indian Nations

Explore the history, culture, and modern-day lifestyles of American Indians living in ten distinct geographic regions of North America. Readers will evaluate the similarities and differences between the Indian nations and make connections as to how geography affected their past and… View available downloads →

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