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The Effects of Removal on American Indian Tribes  (part 2 of 7) Clara Sue Kidwell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ©National Humanities Center

ECOLOGICAL SUBREGIONS OF TRIBAL LANDS BEFORE REMOVAL (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 east of the Mississippi before Removal, ca. 1830 (boundaries approximate)

Cherokee	221 M221 231	Eastern Broadleaf Forest (Oceanic) Central Appalachian Broadleaf Forest—Coniferous Forest—Meadow Southern Mixed Forest
Chickasaw	222 231	Eastern Broadleaf Forest (Continental) Southern Mixed Forest
Creek & Choctaw	231 232	Southern Mixed Forest Outer Coastal Plain Mixed Forest
Choctaw in northwest Mississippi	234	Lower Mississippi Riverine Forest
Seminole	232	Outer Coastal Plain Mixed Forest

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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