Native+Americans

The four major tribes are The Algonquin,Tuscarora,Catawba,and Cherokee. First, the Algonquin tribe lived along the Alantic Coast,which today goes to Maine to North Carolina. Villages like the the Chowanoc.One Chowanoc village had more than 1000 people in the late 1500s.The Waccamaw, the largest group on Cape Fear,gave their name to one of the largest of the Carolina Bays. Like all Native peoples, these groups in particular advantage the enviroment,depending heavily on the fish taken from the sea and sounds. In addition, reported a white vistor in the 1500s they ate many kinds of fruits,melons,walnuts,cucumbers,and Gourdes, and lastly,pease and Diver roots.

The costal plain was dominated in the 1500s by the one tribe, the Tuscarora. This group had about 15 large villages, each with about 300 to 500 people,concentrated near the Nuese River and Tar River. The name means " hemp gathers". One early explorers noted that the Tuscarora ahd flat bodies.The Tuscarora were kin to the famous Iroquis nation of New York and possibly came South in the 1400s.

Beyond the fall line,more than a dozen diffrent groups lived in the rolling hills of the Piedmont. They had many names, which have survived as places in North Carolina, including Waxhaw and Saxapahaw. A lot of groups moved back and forth across the hilly Piedmont in the 1500s. the Sapona, who had lived in in Virgina for a time,spent several decades concentrated on the Yadkin River at one of its fords. This was the tribe visited by John Lawson in 1700. Regardless of the names they spoke they spoke languages that sounded alike. They spoke various languages versions of the Sioux language.

The Cherokee have been the most famous Indian group in North Carolina history,both for their size and their location. The Cherokee first settled in the deep mountains during the height of the Woodland period. The Cherokee were one of the largest tribes in what became the United States. They may have numbered 3000 during the late Woodland period. The villages on the upper reaches of the Savannah River in South Carolina and Georgia were the lower Cherokee. The Cherokee lacked clay to make much pottery. Instead they stored many items in intricately woven baskets made of green strips of tender branches,often from the oak trees. Through out centries, Cherokee baskets have been some of the most beautiful works art made in the North Carolinians.

by kaitlyn glover