Calicuas

The Calicuas appear on early maps of the country west of the Appalachian ridges. Rivers crossing these mountains linked the upper Potomac to the Ohio valley, and Indigenous peoples travelled and traded through the intervening country. Farther north, communities of the Monongahela tradition cultivated maize and lived in villages containing many houses. Their settlements and fields occupied the valleys of a region divided by forested ridges and winding streams.