Keyauwee
The Keyauwee were a North American Indian tribe from the Sioux language family . They were linguistically and culturally related to the Saponi , Cheraw and other eastern peoples of the Sioux, whose traditional habitat was in the Piedmont region of the Appalachians in what is now the states of Virginia and North Carolina . Scientists suspect that the Sioux once formed a single large group in the Ohio River valley , which later separated and then moved either east or west. The last survivors of the Keyauwee were probably taken in and integrated by the Catawba around 1730 . The tribe has therefore been considered extinct since that time.
history
The Keyauwee lived in a palisade- protected place on the Uwharrie River in what is now Randolph County in North Carolina at the beginning of the 18th century . The village lay in the middle of extensive corn fields and was surrounded by bare mountains with almost no grass or trees. The reddish colored ground was used as a color for the body painting. John Lawson was the chief surveyor of the North Carolina colony and visited the Keyauwee and allied tribes on behalf of the government in 1701. According to his records, the small tribe suffered frequent attacks from hostile tribes. He also reported that most of the men in the tribe wore mustaches. This was considered an unusual custom among Indians, who usually plucked out their whiskers. Like their neighbors, they picked all the bones out of their meat food when they ate and then burned them. Otherwise, they believed, all game would leave the hunting area.
Soon after Lawson's visit, the Keyauwee united with the Tutelo and Saponi to better defend themselves against the attacks of the Iroquois . The Occaneechi and Shoccoree joined them around 1714 and all five tribes with a total of 750 members moved to the Albemarle Sound together . Virginias Governor Alexander Spotswood proposed in 1716 that the members of the Keyauwee, along with the Eno and Cheraw in Eno Town on the border between Virginia and North Carolina, should be placed under the protection of the colonies. This plan failed, however, as the governments of North and South Carolina rejected the proposal. Around 1730, these three tribes moved south to the Pee Dee River in South Carolina. Jeffrey's 1761 map shows the villages of Keyauwee and Cheraw on the Pee Dee River, roughly on the border between North and South Carolina. Thereafter, these tribes were no longer mentioned in contemporary documents. Historians suspect that the relatives were integrated by the Catawba.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Keyauwee Indians. Retrieved December 1, 2016 .
- ^ A b Access Genealogy-Keyauwee. Retrieved December 1, 2016 .