"The Eastern Woodlands region covered the east coast of what is today the United States. It stretched from the Atlantic Ocean west to the Mississippi River. It also included parts of southern Canada. The Eastern Woodlands was a huge region of different environments. It had snow covered mountains in the north and hot, wet swamps in the south." (http://www.watertown.k12.ma.us/cunniff/americanhistorycentral/02indiansofnorthamerica/The_Iroquois.html#TXTANC20018126638220)