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The Effects of Removal on American Indian Tribes  (part 4 of 7) Clara Sue Kidwell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ©National Humanities Center

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

		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

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