Friday, May 27, 2011

ENO TRIBE IN NORTH CAROLINIA

THE ENO TRIBE WAS PROBABLY OF THE SIOUAN LINGUISTIC STOCK. THEIR NEAREST RELATIVES WERE SHAKORI. THEY ONLY HAD ONE VILLAGE ON THE ENO RIVER. BOTH ENO AND SHARORI TRIBES OCCUPIED ONE VILLAGE NEAR ADHSHUSKEER. THEY RESISTED THE NORTHWARD. THEY MAY HAVE LIVED IN THE ENO RIVER IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND UNITED WITH THE CATAWBA. THEIR DIALECT WAS STILL SPOKEN UNTIL 1743. IN 1600 THEY HAD A COMBINED POPULATION OF 1500. THE ENO WERE TRADERS AND THEIR NAME WAS GIVEN TO THE ENO RIVER.

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