Friday, June 3, 2011

WOCCON INDIANS IN NORTH CAROLINA

THIS IS A SMALL TRIBE FORMERLY INHABITING EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND THEY ARE RELATED LINGUISTICALLY TO CATAWBA. THEY SPOKE SIOUAN LANGUAGE; AND LIVED IN TWO VILLAGES. THEY HAD 120 WARRIORS IN 1709. THEY JOINED THE TUSCARORA AGAINST THE WHITES IN THE WAR OF 1711, AND THEY WERE EXTINGUISHED AS A TRIBE BY THAT WAR! THE FEW REMAINING JOINED THE CATAUBWA.

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