CHERAW WAS A TRIBE OF SIOUAN AMERICAN INDIANS WHO WERE FIRST ENCOUNTERED BY HERNANDO DE SOTO IN 1540. THE NAME THEY CALLED THEMSELVES IS LOST BUT CHEROKEE CALLED THEM CATAWBA - SARA PLACE OF TALL WEEDS.
THE EARLY EXPLORER,JOHN LAWSON,INCLUDED THEM IN LARGER SIOUN CONFEDERACY OR THE ESAW NATION. BY 1600 THEY MAY HAVE NUMBERED 1200. BY 1700 THEY MOVED TO THE DAN RIVER ON THE BORDER OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. IN 1710 THEY WERE ATTACKED BY THE IROQUOIS FROM THE NORTH SO THEY MOVED SOUTHEAST TO JOIN THE KEYAWEE TRIBE. THEY HAD A VILLAGE ON THE EAST BANK OF THE UPPER UPPER BRANCHES OF THE OF TEH PEE DEE RIVER ABOUT 1712. IN THE EARLY 1800'S THEY LIVED IN NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. IN 1738 A SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC DECIMATED BOTH THE CHERAW AND CATABA. SOMETIME THEY COMBINED AND MAY HAVE MOVED NORTH AND FOUNDED THE CHARRAW SETTLEMENT IN NORTH CAROLINA. THE TRIBE WAS MOSTLY MAY HAVE MOVED NORTH AND FOUNDED THE CHARRAW SETTLEMENT IN NORTH CAROLINA. THE TRIBE WAS MOSTLY DESTROYED BY THE 1750'S. THE ANGLOS ENCROACHED UPON T5HEIR TERRITORY AND BY 1768 THEY NUMBERED ONLY 50 INDIVIDUALS.
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