Cape Fear Indians
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The Cape Fear Indians were a small, coastal tribe of Native Americans who lived on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina (now Carolina Beach State Park).
Name and language
The autonym of the Cape Fear Indians may have been Daw-hee.
History
Smallpox spread from Spanish colonies in Florida to the Carolinas in the 16th century.[5] The population of the Cape Fear Indians was estimated to be 1,000 in 1600. A colonial census in 1715 recorded that they numbered 206.[3]
British colonist William Hilton observed 100 Indians at Cape Fear in 1662. One Indian individual sold to Hilton Cape Fear River and adjacent lands. In 1664 the settlement called
Some Cape Fear Indians fought with their
The Cape Fear Indians and the Winyaw migrated from their coastal villages up the Pee Dee River adjacent to a trading post the British founded in 1716.[8] They eventually settled inland from Charleston in what is now known as Williamsburg County, South Carolina.[9] In May 1749 provision was made by the Governor in Council to render protection to them through supplying their representatives with fifty pounds of bullets and twenty-five pounds of powder. There had previously been complaints that the Cape Fear were being abused and driven from nearby hunting lands by neighboring Europeans. It was ruled that they were a peaceable people and that their rights to hunt were protected by the government.[9] Anthropologist John R. Swanton wrote, "In 1808 White neighbors remembered when as many as 30 Pedee and Cape Fear Indians lived in their old territories,"[1] but by this time "the Pedee and Cape Fear tribes were represented by one half-blood woman."[10]
Notes
- ^ a b c d Swanton 75
- ^ Rudes, Blumer, and May pp. 315–316
- ^ a b Swanton, John R. (1952; reprinted 2003). The Indian Tribes of North America, p. 75. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company.
- ^ Milanich p. 237
- ^ Rudes, Blumber, and May 309
- ^ a b c d Rudes, Blumer, and May 308
- ISBN 0-8131-2405-0.
- ^ a b Rudes, Blumer, and May 310
- ^ ISBN 0872491803.
- ^ Sawnton p. 97
References
- Milanich, Jerald T. (2004). Handbook of North American Indians: Southeast. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 229–237. ISBN 0-16-072300-0.
- Rudes, Blair A.; Thomas J. Blumer; J. Alan May (2004). Fogelson, Raymond D. (ed.). Handbook of North American Indians. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 301–318. ISBN 0-16-072300-0.
- Swanton, John Reed (1952). The Indian Tribes of North America. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution (Reprinted by Genealogical Press). ISBN 9780806317304.