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peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains a tribal affiliation or community attachment". The passing of the Indian

(generally referred to in North America as the French and Indian War). This included the lands along the Gulf Coast and north of Lake Pontchartrain to the

Government of Hawaii but to the superior force of the United States of America" and wrote letters of protest to the president requesting a recognizance of allyship

File:Moundville Archaeological Site Alabama.jpg Indigenous peoples of varying cultures lived in the area for thousands of years before the advent of European

coastal plain. North Carolina's Mount Mitchell at 6,684 ft (2,037 m) is the highest point in North America east of the Mississippi River. Most of the state

relatively warmer areas of the southern and western regions of the state. Precipitation varies north to south with the north averaging of 38 to 40 inches (970

area of all landlocked states. The Green Mountains in Vermont form a north–south spine running most of the length of the state, slightly west of its center

with the Mexican state of Baja California to the south (with which it makes up part of The Californias region of North America, alongside Baja California

1960s, the proportion of African Americans in Georgia had declined to 28% of the state's population, after waves of migration to the North and some immigration

During the turn of the 19th century, the extreme northeastern part of New Mexico, north of the Canadian River and east of the spine of the Sangre de Cristo

includes the earliest known signs of human activity in Pennsylvania and perhaps all of North America, including the remains of a civilization that existed over

contain some of the highest elevations in eastern North America. The state's border with North Carolina roughly follows the highest peaks of this range,

2012.jpg American Indians of successive cultures lived along the waterways of the Illinois area for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans

the middle of the high plains of the Colorado Plateau, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Winslow. A rim of smashed and jumbled boulders, some of them the size

Northwest Angle in Lake of the Woods County is the only part of the 48 contiguous states north of the 49th parallel. The state is part of the U.S. region known

position of chair of the Board of Regents, a position currently held by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey. Other members of the Board of Regents are three members of the

49.6% of the population. The population density of the state is 52.7 people per square mile. As of the 2010 census, the center of population of Iowa is

commencement of the war with Great Britain, and for a long time afterwards, the State of South Carolina was almost destitute of any of the means of military

non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside

near the headwaters of the North Branch of the Potomac River. Close to the small town of Hancock, in western Maryland, about two-thirds of the way across the