Conventional scholarship postulates the development of the Keresiouan group as taking place on the Great Plains, making them possible members of the seventh millennium Plano Point Culture.

This theory has the Keres moving west to become pueblo-dwellers, the Cherokee, Catawba, Tuscarora and Yuchi moving southeast to the Appalachians and the Carolina seaboard, the Caddoans moving south, the Siouans moving east to Lake Michigan and southeast to the Gulf, the Hurons moving to the north of the Ontario-Erie-St. Lawrence complex and the Five Nations and Susquehannocks moving to the south of the Lakes and River.