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Posted on 02.03.2015, 06.02.2016
Bordered on the north by Michigan, on the east by Ohio, on the west by Illinois, on the northwest by Lake Michigan and on the south by Kentucky (through the Ohio River), Indiana (Indian Land) is broken up into three main physical regions, such that the central and northern Indiana are mainly flat, with some low rolling hills and soil composed of glacial sands, gravel and clay, which results in exceptional farmland, in northwest are sand ridges and dunes, located along the Lake Michigan shoreline, and the southern segment is characterized by profound valleys and rugged, hilly terrain.
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The first inhabitants in what is now Indiana were the Paleo-Indians, who arrived about 8000 BC. There followed the Archaic period, the Woodland period, and eventually the Mississippian culture, which lasted until the 15th century, shortly before the arrival of Europeans. The Native American tribes in the area at the time of European encounter were the Shawnee, Miami, and Illini. Later they were joined by refugee tribes from eastern regions including the Delaware. In 1679 the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was the first European to cross into Indiana.
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