NHC Home TeacherServe Nature Transformed Native Americans Essay:
The Effects of Removal on American Indian Tribes  (part 4 of 7)
Clara Sue Kidwell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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ECOLOGICAL SUBREGIONS OF
INDIAN TERRITORY (OKLAHOMA)

(approximate)

from
Ecological Subregions of the United States
U.S. Forest Service
http://www.fs.fed.us/land/ecosysmgmt/
ecoreg1_home.html


(ID numbers from
Ecological Subregions map.)
Ecological subregions of tribal lands in Indian Territory after Removal
Ecological subregions of tribal lands
in Indian Territory after Removal


    Before Removal   After Removal
Cherokee 221
M221

231
Eastern Broadleaf Forest (Oceanic)
Central Appalachian Broadleaf Forest—
   Coniferous Forest—Meadow
Southern Mixed Forest
222
M222
251
Eastern Broadleaf Forest (Continental)
Ozark Broadleaf Forest—Meadow
Prairie Parkland (Temperate)
Choctaw 231
232
234
Southern Mixed Forest
Outer Coastal Plain Mixed Forest
Lower Mississippi Riverine Forest
231
M231
255
Southeastern Mixed Forest
Ouachita Mixed Forest—Meadow
Prairie Parkland (Subtropical)
Creek
231
232
Southern Mixed Forest
Outer Coastal Plain Mixed Forest
255 Prairie Parkland (Subtropical)
Chickasaw 222
231
Eastern Broadleaf Forest (Continental)
Southern Mixed Forest
255 Prairie Parkland (Subtropical)
Seminole 232 Outer Coastal Plain Mixed Forest 255 Prairie Parkland (Subtropical)
Regions to west     332
311
Great Plains Steppe
Great Plains Steppe and Shrub


A black-and-white ecoregions map with state boundaries (detail below) from the U.S. Forest Service is available at http://www.fs.fed.us/land/pubs/ecoregions/ecoregions.html

black-and-white ecoregions map with state boundariesal subregions





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