The Eastern woodlands people lived in the area near the eastern coast. They lived in forests and because of that they found it hard to farm, not because of the same reason the Great Plains had but because of the low amount of sunlight that made it though the foliage of the tall and thick trees. This caused a bit of work because they needed to clear the forest. In the beginning this was hard. It became easier when they discovered that if you burn the bark of tree before you chop it down it will die.

The People of the eastern woodlands were famous for the burial mounds they made. They didn't just make a mound they created shapes of animals or spirits. Dead were buried under the mounds with their possessions.

Battle was an important part of their life and so when the boys became men they took up the tomahawk (a axe like weapon).

They were a large size group of native Americans though war was important to them they were also creative in nature. One example is that they built their villages on the mounds of the dead with a couple of small mounds for living and a large mounds for the chief, elders, or other people of high stature. The largest village was called Cahokia.

The Eastern woodlands people almost completely died out in 1540.