Oneota
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa
- Date: c. 800-1500
The Oneota are considered both a people and a cultural tradition. This tradition appears to have developed from the Late Woodland or Upper Mississippian tradition by times variously given as 400 to 800 c.e. The sites identified as emergent Oneota are located in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois, but later sites occur in Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, Indiana, and the near corner of Michigan. The society was a mixture of hunter-gatherer and agricultural, with permanently established villages and houses. The houses, usually of wattle and daub construction with sod roofs, were...
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