NO. 12 TRIBAL MIGRATIONS BUSH NELL 9 



of Virginia and Carolina and reached the coast ; others moving more 

 slowly, and undouhtedly reluctant to abandon the rich hunting grounds 

 west of the Wabash, had probably arrived on the banks of the Missis- 

 sippi and the shores of Lake Michigan. The Algonquian tribes had 

 likewise moved farther away from their earlier habitat and some had 

 already pushed southward on the Atlantic coast. 



Muskhogean tribes occupied the greater part of the southeastern 

 United States, and some of their villages, already old when visited by 

 the Spanish invaders in 1540, may have been the sites of much earlier 

 proto-Muskhogean settlements. The villages of the Calusa and 

 Timucua tribes dominated the peninsula of Florida. 



This was the distribution of the linguistic groups at the beginning 

 of the historic era, when Europeans were soon to enter and traverse 

 the vast, unknown region that lay between the Atlantic coast and the 

 Mississippi. 



