For millennia before Europeans arrived, the Chesapeake region was home to Native Americans and a rich diversity of wildlife, with black bears and wolves in the woods, beaver, muskrat, and otters in the wetlands, sturgeon, perch, and shad in the river, and great flocks of ducks, geese, and passenger pigeons overhead. Sustained by this natural bounty, Native Americans lived in large villages near the Chesapeake Bay in summer and dispersed into smaller interior camps in winter. As European settlement increased, Native Americans moved to reservations created on the banks of the Wicomico River, including Tundotank Reservation across the river from Pemberton Plantation in the 18th century. A significant Native American population remained in this region until the mid 18th century. John White's illustrations, which formed the basis for a DeBry etching, are an important source of information about the first Americans; White visited coastal Native American villages as far north as the Chesapeake Bay in the 1500s. Stone tools used by native people in this region include a grinding stone, a mortar for grinding seeds and grains, and a full-grooved archaic-period ax.