Tuesday, June 14, 2011

COOSA INDIANS IN SOUTH CAROLINA

THE COOSA WERE A SMALL TRIBE NOW EXTINCT THAT LIVED NEAR THE MOUTH OF EDISTO. THEIR NAME IS PRESERVED IN COOSAU. THEY LIVED NORTHEAST OF COMBAHEE RIVER SEPARATED FROM COMBAHEE TRIBE. THEY WERE HOSTILE TO THE ENGLISH IN 1676. THEY SOLD LAND TO THE COLONISTS, IN 1743 THEY LAST APPEARED UNDER THE NAME OF COOSAH AND HAD INCORPORATED WITH THE CATAWBA.

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