Shakori
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The Shakori (also known as Cacores , Shocco or Shacco ) were a tribe of Native American people who lived on the banks and in the region around the Shocco , Big Shocco River and the Eno River in what is now counties Vance , Warren and Franklin in North Carolina in the southeast the United States . The Shakori were hardly tied to a fixed settlement area and often moved around. It is unclear where their roots are exactly. Colonel Barnwell identified the Shakori in the Tuscarora War as Sisspahaw , a tribe with which they were certainly closely allied, possibly the Shakori were also an offshoot of the Sissipahaw tribe.
Language and origin
They belonged to the indigenous language family of the Sioux , although researchers seemed unlikely a close relationship to the tribes of the Sioux because of their physical characteristics. The Shakori were described by the Tuscarora as extraordinarily small, almost dwarfish, and yet described as a combative and defensive people, which the mighty Tuscarora had not been able to subjugate. The Shakori were closely related to the Eno tribe , the Adshusheer and the Occaneechee . They had common customs and not only shared their living space, but from 1701 also shared the common village of Adshusheer . The origin and the actual meaning of the name is unknown, it may have arisen from the same word creation as the name of the Sugeree and means in the Catawba language, for example, corrupt or spoiled people , perhaps also from the river, whose water cannot be drunk .
history
Possibly the Shakori are the tribe of Chicora, who met Allyon in 1521 and gave the province its name. If so, they moved north during the 16th or early 17th centuries. The trigger for this hike could have been the visit of Juan Pardo . In 1654, Virginia Governor Yeardley learned of a Cacore Tuscarora . John Lederer finally found this tribe in 1672 in a village about 14 miles from the Eno. In 1701 John Lawson reports that the two tribes shared a village called Adshusheer not far from present-day Durham on the Eno River. The tribes henceforth have a common history and formed a common people. Mooney estimates the Shakori, Eno, and Adshusheer population at 1500 in 1600.
Today, the names of the two streams Shocco and Big Shocco are reminiscent of the Shakori, and a coaching inn near Warrenton in Warren County also bears this name. The Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival music festival in Chatham County , North Carolina, is held on a site called Shakori Hills and is reminiscent of the name of the Indians. The US Navy named a ship after the Shakori.
The common settlement area of the Eno and Shakori is now under protection as part of the Eno River State Park .
See also
List of North American Indian tribes
literature
- Mooney: Siouan Tribes of the East , Bull. BAE, 1894.
- NC Division of Parks and Recreation: Description of Eno River State Park Available as PDF
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Shakori Tribe. Retrieved November 29, 2016 .