The Iroquoian group, which occupied the country from the Delaware and the Hudson to and beyond the St.Lawrence and Lakes Ontario and Erie, besides isolated tracts in North Carolina and Tennessee.

The chief tribes were the Iroquois proper,--forming a confederacy in central New York known as the Five Nations (Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas, and Mohawks),--the Hurons, the Eries, the Cherokees, and the Tuscaroras.
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The Algonquian group, which occupied the rest of what is now the United States east of the Mississippi, besides the larger part of Canada.

In this group were the Mohegans, Pequots, and Narragansetts of New England; the Delawares; the Powhatans of Virginia; the Shawnees of the Ohio valley, and many others living around the Great Lakes.
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Weapons and Implements and Clothing.%--All of these tribes had made some progress towards civilization.