What important differences were there between Indian societies in the Southwest, South, and Northeast on the eve of colonization?
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Ans:
Southwest: arid climate, individualistic peoples, lived in racherias, governed by councils of men, seasonal public ceremonies, code of behavior, pueblos, communal village life
South: moist climate, organized into chiefdoms, class society with ruling group of nobility, human sacrifice, agricultural festivals, matrilineal
Northeast: cold, villages surrounded by palisades, confederacy of 5 nations, fur trade with Europeans
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