The culture area is a convenient way of describing the ways of life of hundreds of people covering a whole continent or a larger part of the earth's surface. The entire North American continent from the Arctic to Panama has been divided into seventeen culture areas. A brief discussion of the East tribes including New Jersey tribes follows: This area extends from a little beyond the St. Lawrence River in Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and from the eastern boundary of the Prairies area to the Atlantic. It includes all of New York and the middle-Atlantic states, southern New England and most of the Southern states as Far West as Louisiana. These people were more subsisted to a greater extension from crops. The European colonists settling in the United States contacted these Indians and learned from them to raise corn, beans, and pumpkins as well as tobacco.
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