Culture areas of the Americas

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Cultural areas of North American people at the time of European contact.

The indigenous peoples of North America have been classified, by ethnographers, into regional cultural areas.

[edit] North America

• 1.1 Arctic
• 1.2 Subarctic
• 1.3 California
• 1.4 Northeast Woodlands
• 1.5 Great Basin
• 1.6 Intermontane Plateaus or simply The Plateau
• 1.7 Northwest Coast
• 1.8 Plains
• 1.9 Southeast
• 1.10 Southwest
• 1.11 Aridoamerica
• 1.12 Mesoamerica
• 1.1 Caribbean

[edit] South America

• 2.1 Andean
• 2.2 Sub-Andean
• 2.3 Western Amazon
• 2.4 Central Amazon
• 2.5 Eastern and Southern Amazon
• 2.6 Gran Chaco
• 2.7 Southern Cone

[edit] See also

• Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
• Indigenous languages of the Americas: North America

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