Native+Americans

__//** Algonquin Tribe **//__ // The Algonquin Tribes there were small groups that lived along the coast that spoke various versions of the Algonquin language. Their language was shared by villages and tribes all along the Alantic Coast from what is today Maine down to North Carolina. These groups included the Chowanoc and Pasquotank Indians who lived North of the Albemarle Sound, each of whom was a name sake for a county. The Waccamaw, the largest group on the Cape Fear, gave their name to one of the largest of the Carolina bays. These people took heavily advantage of their enviornment, depending heavily on fish taken from the sea and sounds. It was also said that their corn was very white, faire, and well tasted. //

// The Coastal Plain was dominated in the 1500s by one tribe, the Tuscarora. This group had about fifteen large villages, each with about 300 to 500 people, concentrated near the Neuse and Tar rivers. The name Tuscarorameans 'hemp gathers.' One explorernoted that the Tuscorora had flat bodies. Tuscarora children were laced down hard to a board in their infancy to give them the correct form of posture later. One English explorer claimed their legs and feet were the handsomest in the world. //
 * //__ The Tuscarora __//**

__//** The Catawaba **//__ // Beyond the fall line more than a dozen different groups lived in the rolling hills of the Piedmont. They had many names, which have survived as places in North Carolina, including Waxhaw and Saxaphaw. A lot of groups moved back and forth across the hilly Piedmont in the 1500s. The Sapona, who had lived in Virginia 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. The Occaneechi lived near the present site of Hillsborough and were known to be miners in the Uwharries. Regardless of what name they went by, the tribes in the Piedmont spoke languages that sounded much alike. They spoke various versions of the Sioux language. //

__//** The Cherokke **//__ The Cherokee have been the most famous Indian group in North Carolina history, both for their size and their location. Originally, the ancestors of the Cherokee lived in the upper stretches of the Ohio River.