Sugeree
The Sugeree (also known as Sagaree, Sataree, Suturee, Sugau, Sugan, and Sagan ) were a tribe of North American Native Americans who lived on the shores and in the region around Sugar Creek in what is now York Counties in South Carolina and Mecklenburg in North Carolina , south the city of Charlotte in the southeastern United States .
The researcher Frank Speck, who has studied the Catawba language in detail, considers the name of the tribe to be a derivative of the Catawba word yensr grihere , which can mean " perishing people" or "from the river whose water cannot be drunk ". Very little is known about the Sugeree. Although no word of their language has survived, it is assumed that they belonged to the indigenous language family of the Sioux and were closely related to the Catawba, possibly even more closely related to the Shakori . There is no reliable estimate of the population, it is said that they lived in many villages, but none of the place names has been passed down. The anthropologist James Mooney counted them to the group of the Catawba, which he estimated at 5000 people. Lawson mentions the Sugaree in 1701, but there are no further references to the strain and its origin.
It is assumed that the Sugeree or Suturee, as they were also called from 1715, participated in the Yamasee War and, after a significant decimation in the course of the war, joined the Catawba. Today the name of the stream on which the Sugeree settled, the Sugar Creek , reminds of the former residents of the region.
Individual evidence
- ↑ American Anthropologist, New Series, Issue 37, No. 2, Part 1 (April to June 1935), pages 201-225: "Frank G. Speck: Siouan Tribes of the Carolinas as Known from Catawba, Tutelo, and Documentary Sources. "
See also
List of North American Indian tribes