THIS IS A SIOUAN TRIBE OF NORTH CAROLINA. THIS IS A SIOUAN TRIBE OF NORTH CAROLINA. THEY HAD VILLAGES NEAR SAXAPAW AND ON THE HAW RIVER. IN THE 1500'S THEY WERE FIRST RECORDED BY THE SPANISH AS THE SAUXPA. THEY JOINED THE YAMSEE AGAINST THE ENGLISH COLONISTS IN THE 1715 WAR.
VERY LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT THEM. ARCHAEOLOGICAL INDICATES THEY LIVED IN WIGWAM LIKE STRUCTURES AND FARMED CORN, BEANS AND SQUASH. THEY HUNTED TURKEY, DEER, AND BEAR. THEY HAD A PUBERTY RITUAL AND WERE GIVEN TOXIC HERBS AND LITTLE FOOD. THEY WERE CLOSE TO THE SHAKORI AND THEY MAY HAVE BEEN RELATED TO THEM. THEIR LANGUAGE IS NOW EXTINCT AND WAS A SUBDIALECT OF SHAKORI. AFTER 1715 THERE S NO RECORDED HISTORY, OTHER THAN THEY TURNED AGAINST THE ENGLISH. THE FEW SURVIVORS MERGED WITH OTHER RELATED TRIBES SUCH AS THE SHAKORI AND CATAWBO.
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