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Article: Indigenous Trade: The Southeast
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Indigenous Trade: The Southeast
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Southeastern Tribes.
Like the Indians of the Northeast, the indigenous peoples of southeastern North
America had engaged in widespread, long-distance trade for thousand of years before the arrival of Europeans. Tribes such as the Catawbas, Algonkins, Cofitachequi, and Chicaza participated extensively in both regional, intertribal commerce
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which centered largely on the exchange of goods between inland and coastal tribes
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and in the larger continental trade. Southeastern commerce, however, differed from northeastern bartering in one important regard: during the Mississippian period the South witnessed the rise of several large ...
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