A sacred religious symbol to the Southeastern tribes was the solar cross which was a symbol of both the sun and fire. It had several variations, the one shown is from the Caddo from East Texas.

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Southastern tribes were highly agricultural, growing crops like maize for food, and cotton for clothing. They also shared a similar religious beliefs and engaged in mound building to create sacred or acknowledge sites. Many of the religious beliefs of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex or the Southern Cult, where also shared by the Eastern Woodlands tribes, probably spread through the dominance of the Mississippian culture in the 10th century. Binomial name Zea mays L. Maize (Zea mays ssp. ... Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant, a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old World and the New World. ... This article is about mound-building birds. ... The Mississippian culture was a Mound-building Native American culture that flourished in the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States in the centuries leading up to European contact. ... ( 9th century - 10th century - 11th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000. ...

Southeastern Tribes

• Adaes - see Adai
• Adahi - see Adai
• Adai (Adaizan, Adaizi, Adaise, Adahi, Adaes, Adees, Atayos) Louisiana
• Adaise - see Adai
• Adaizan - see Adai
• Adaizi - see Adai'
• Adees - see Adai
• Ais Florida
• Akokisa
• Alabama Alabama
• Apalachee Florida
• Atakapa
• Atayos - see Adai
• Bidai
• Biloxi Mississippi
• Caddo Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas
• Calusa Florida
• Catawba South Carolina
• Chatot
• Chawasha
• Cherokee North Carolina; later Oklahoma
• Chiaha
• Chickahominy Virginia
• Chickamauga
• Chickasaw Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, later Oklahoma
• Chitimacha Louisiana
• Choctaw Mississippi, Alabama, and parts of Louisiana; later Oklahoma
• Creek Alabama; Oklahoma, Georgia
• Coahuiltecan Texas
• Comecrudo Texas, northern Mexico
• Coushatta Louisiana
• Coharie North Carolina
• Cusabo
• Garza Texas, northern Mexico
• Hitchiti Georgia, Alabama, Florida
• Houma Louisiana
• Iswa
• Jeaga Florida
• Koasati
• Lumbee North Carolina
• Mattaponi Virginia
• Mamulique Texas, northern Mexico
• Meherrin North Carolina
• Mikasuki (Miccosukee) Florida
• Mobile
• Mocama
• Monacan Virginia
• Nansemond Virginia
• Natchez Mississippi, Louisiana
• Nottoway
• Ofo
• Pamlico (Carolina)
• Pamunkey Virginia
• Pee Dee South Carolina, North Carolina
• Pensacola
• Rappahannock Virginia
• Saponi
• Seminole Florida; Oklahoma
• Taensa
• Tawasa
• Tequesta Florida
• Timucua (Utina) Florida
• Topachula Florida
• Tuscarora North Carolina, Virginia (later Niagara Falls, New York)
• Tuskegee
• Tutelo
• Tunica Mississippi
• Waccamaw North Carolina, South Carolina
• Woccon
• Yamasee
• Yuchi

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