Re: Maj Space: Maj - North America - help please!

> I'm afraid that I'm not good enough at American history or
> physical geography to sort this out.  Does anyone have any ideas?

    There is the Mound Culture of Cheokia (just SE of St. Louis). 
Pre-Columbia, they were a pretty powerful culture. Could always expland them 
to cover much of the Missouri/Mississippi watershed.

    The Great Lakes/NE area is home to several famous indian cultures, 
notably the Iriqoises (I know I butchered that name) and Blackfoots.  They 
actually had some moderately powerful nations, not just tribes.  A Great 
Lakes Confederation would work there.

    Moving west, you have both the plains indians (the classical 
horse-riding indians), and the cliff-dwelling haopians.  The cliff-dwellers 
were interesting because they farmed the plateaus (all desert now due to 
climate changes).  There were some tribes in the Rockies, but I don't think 
those were particularly numerous, as the winters are very harsh in the area 
for a hunter-gather society.  The west coast indians are most famous for 
carving totem poles and living in lodges.  Mostly they were fishermen and 
survived on seals.

Adam