Friday, May 27, 2011

COREE INDIANS IN NORTH CAROLINA

AS THE FINAL STAGE OF EXISTENCE WAS PASSED WITH AN ALGONQUIN TRIBE SOME HAVE THOUGHT THAT THE AFFILIATIONS OF THESE PEOPLE WERE WERE ALSO ALGONQUIN . LAWSON (1860) NOTED THAT THEIR LANGUAGE TO THAT OF A TRIBE TO THE NORTH WAS MUTUALLY SIMILAR AND THEY BELONGED TO THE IROQUOIS AND TUSCARORA. THEY HAD THREE MAIN VILLAGES. IT IS UNKNOWN WHEN THE WHITES MET. THEY WERE REDUCED BEFORE 1696 IN A WAR WITH OTHERS. THEY WARRED AGAINST THE COLONISTS. IN 1715 THEY WERE ASSIGNED A RESERVATION ON A LAKE AND THEY HAD ONE VILLAGE. IN 1600 THEY HAD 1000 FOLKS.

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