WATEREE INDIANS IN SOUTH CAROLINA

ONE RESEARCHER SUGGESTS A CONNECTION TO CATAWBA. THEIR NAME MEANS TO FLOAT ON WATER. THEY SPEAK SIOUAN LANGUAGE. THEY SPEAK SIOUAN LANGUAGE. THEY LIVE ON THE WATEREE RIVER. THEY WERE FIRST MENTIONED BY JUAN PARDO EXPEDITION IN 1566. THEY LIVED INLAND TOWARD THE CHEROKEE FRONTIER. PARDO BUILT A FORT WITH 17 SOLDIERS. THE INDIANS WIPED THEM OUT IN 1711-12 THEY FURNISHED A CONTINGENT TO BARNWELL IN HIS RAID AGAINST TUSCARORA.THEY LIVED ON THE WEST BANK OF THE WATERLEE RIVER. DURING THE LATE 1700'S THEY WENT TO LIVE WEST OF THE CATAWBA WITH WHOM THE THE SURVIVORS HAVE FUSED. IN 1928 THERE POPULATION IS ESTIMATED AT ABOUT 1000. THEY WERE ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL TRIBES OF CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA AS FAR BACK AS THE TIME OF THE SPANISH AT ST. HELENA. THEIR NAME IS IN A PAST VILLAGE IN RICHLAND COUNTY.

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