Thursday, June 2, 2011

SISSIPAHAW INDIANS IN NORTH CAROLINA

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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SUGAREE INDIANS IN NORTH CAROLINA

THE SUGAREE LIVED ON LITTLE SUGAREE CREEK USING THE WATER FOR SURVIVAL. THEY LIVED HERE AT LEAST 200 HUNDRED YEARS AGO. IT IS A SMALL TRIBE THAT LIVED NEAR MECKLEBURG COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA AND IN YORK COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. THEY SPOKE SIOUAN. THEY OCCUPIED A FERTILE DISTRICT. AFTER THE YAMSEE WAR IN 1915. THEY WERE GREATLY REDUCED AND MERGED WITH CATAWBA.

BEFORE EUROPEANS ARRIVED IN NORTH CAROLINA HAD MANY TRIBES WHO SHARED CULTURAL TRAITS, THEY HAD THREE MAJOR LANGUAGE FAMILIES WHO WERE IN NORTH CAROLINA WHO WERE RELATED TO THE THE IROQUOIS TRIBES TO THE NORTH.

THEY HUNTED DEER RABBITS, AND OTHER ANIMALS, CAUGHT FISH IN THE RIVERS. THESE SUGAREE INDIANS SMOKED MARAJUANA, COCAINE AND INDIAN TOBACCO TO ENGAGE IN VISIONS. THE FACT THAT THE EUROPEANS WERE BROUGHT UP IN A CHRISTIAN BELIEF SYSTEM MADE THEM VERY DIFFERENT THAN NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGION.

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NATCHEZ INDIAN IN NORTH CAROLINA

THESE FOLKS ORIGINALLY LIVED IN THE BLUFFS NEAR THE CITY OF NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI AND HAD A POPULATION OF ABOUT 6000. THEY MAY HAVE BEEN DISTANTLY RELATED TO THE MUSKOGEAN LANGUAGES. THEY ARE NOTED FOR BEING THE ONLY MISSISSIPPIAN CULTURE WITH COMPLEX CHIEFDOMS CHARACTERISTIC TO HAVE SURVIVED INTO THE TIME WHEN EUROPEAN CAME HERE. THEIR CHIEF WAS NAMED GREAT SUN. AROUND 1730 AFTER TWO WARS THEIR SURVIVORS WERE SOLD INTO FRENCH SLAVERY IN THE WEST INDIES. OTHERS WENT TO LIVE WITH NEIGHBORING TRIBES.

THEIR HISTORIC NATCHEZ WERE CALLED PLAQUEMINE CULTURE, PART OF THE INDIGENOUS PREHISTORIC MISSISSIPPI. THEY LIVED HERE AS LONG AS 700 YEARS BEFORE PRESENT. THEY BUILT MANY PLATFORM MOUNDS, INCLUDING EMERALD MOUND - THE SECOND LARGEST PRE-COLUMBIAN MOUND IN NORTH AMERICA. THEY LIVED IN WATTLE AND DAUB STRUCTURES.

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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

HATERAS INDIAS IN NORTH CAROLINA

THIS ROANOKE - HATERAS TRIBE IS A DESCENDANT OF HISTORIC HATERAS , ROANOKE AND OTHER ALGONKIAN INDIANS OCCUPYING HATERAS AND ROANOKE ISLANDS AND PRIMARILY NEAR MANTECO, NORTH CAROLINA.

IT HAS AN ENROLLMENT OF 150 FOLKS WHOSE ANCESTRAL LANGUAGE IS EXTINCT. IN 1759 GOVERNOR DOBBS GAVE THEM 200 ACRES NEAR BAXTON, NORTH CAROLINA. AFTER THE DEMISE OF TRIBAL LANDS. AFTER THE TRIBAL LANDS HAD BEEN BROKEN UP THE FAMILY GROUPS CONTINUED HERE SINCE PRE- EUROPEAN CONTACT.

IN 2003 THEY ORGANIZED ALGONQUIAN INDIANS OF NORTH CAROLINA, INCORPORATED. IT SERVED AS A COUNCIL FOR BOTH COMMUNITIES.

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MORATOK AND NEUSIOK INDIANS IN NORTH CAROLINA

MORATOK IS A PLACE NAME BUT THE MEANING IS UNKNOWN. THEY BELONGED TO THE LINGUISTIC STOCK AND WERE CLOSELY RELATED TO THE OTHER ALGONQUIN TRIBES TO BE DESCENDED FROM THE ALGONQUIAN NEUSIOK INDIANS. THEY ARE LOCATED ON LITTLE COHAREE RIVER. THE COHAREE NEUSIOK ARE 1 OF 8 STATE RECOGNIZED NATIVE TRIBES IN NORTH CAROLINA. THEIR POPULATION HAS STEADILY INCREASED FROM 755 IN 1970 TO 2700 IN 2007. THE STATE RECOGNIZED THE COHAREE TRIBE IN 1971 IN CLINTON, NORTH CAROLINA. IN 1975 THE TRIBE CHARTERED THE COHAREE INTERTRIBAL COUNCIL TO SERVE AS AN ORGANIZATION TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH, EDUCATION, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC WELL BEING OF THE TRIBE. IT IS AN OLD SCHOOL THAT SERVED THE TRIBE FROM 1942 - 1966. BY 1964 THE CIVAL RIGHTS ACT SAID THEY ENDED LEGAL RACIAL SEGREGATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

THEY ELECTED THEIR FIRST CHIEF IN 1910.THEY HAVE 7 TRIBAL COUNCIL MEMBERS. MANY ARE AFFILIATED WITH CHURCHES. THEY HAVE INTERMARRIED WITH LUMBEE AND TUSCORORA. THEY OCCUPIED WHAT IS NOW THE CENTRAL PORTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. IN THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY THE COHAREE LIVED ALONG THE COHAREE RIVER.

DURING 1730 AND 1745 INTERTRIBAL CONFLICTS AROSE. THE ENGLISH COLONISTS CAUSED MANY WARS. THE NEUSIAK FOUND SOME TRIBES CAPTURING MEMBERS OF TRADITIONAL ENEMIES AND SELLING THEM AS SLAVES TO COLONISTS. MEASLES AND SMALL POX HAD NO NATURAL IMMUNITY AND THEY DISRUPTED COMMUNITIES.

MANY INDIANS INCLUDING THE NEUSIOKS, SOUGHT REFUGE FROM COLONIAL INCURSION. DURING THE 1800'S THE COHAREE HELD THE RIGHT TO USE FIREARMS AND VOTE IN ELECTIONS. BUT THE 1830'S BROUGHT EVENTS THAT STRESSED THEM. BY THIS TIME CERTAIN EVENTS REDUCED THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS. THE FEDERAL INDIAN REMOVAL POLICY OF 1830'S FORCED TRIBES TO MOVE WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. AFTER 1835 THEY, AS WELL AS BLACKS, LOST THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE AND BEAR ARMS.

IN 1859 THE COHAREE ESTABLISHED THEIR OWN SCHOOL AND THE STATE STOPPED SUPPORTING THEM IN 1917 THE EAST CAROLINA INDIAN SCHOOL WAS BUILT.

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CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING

THIS WEEK OUR TOPIC WAS TO CULTIVATE CLARITY ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE. PRACTICE STRESS FREE LIFE. HOW DO I SHOW UP?
1) CULTIVATE CLARITY; 2) WHAT ARE MY ADDICTIONS? CULTIVATE RIGHT ASPIRATIONS. WHAT WE NEED IS DIFFERENT AT EACH PHASE OF LIFE. 3) AM I CREATING MORE DISCORD? STOP POOR LANGUAGE AND INNER LIFE CHANGES AS WELL. 4) CULTIVATE RIGHT BEHAVIOR THE WAY I SHOW UP IS TO WALK YOUR TALK..

6) CULTIVATE RIGHT EFFORT - STICK TO IT AND HANG IN THERE. BELIEVE IN WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS GREAT AND DON'T GIVE UP UNLESS YOU HATE IT. 7) WHAT DO I PAY MY MIND TO DELETE SHOULDS. 8) ADAPT FOR USE USE RIGHT SPIRIT PRACTICE. LOOK FOR BEAUTIFUL RESULTS.

TUSCARORA INDIANS IN NORTH CAROLINA

TUSCARORA ARE A NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO ARE IROQUOIAN SPEAKING WITH TRIBES IN NORTH CAROLINA., NEW YORK, AND CANADA. THEY LIVED AROUND THE GREAT LAKES ABOUT THE SAME TIME AS THE IROQUOIAN TRIBES BASED IN NEW YORK BEFORE THE COLONISTS CAME HERE THEY WERE SETTLED IN EASTERN NEW YORK ALONG THE ROANOKE RIVER.

AFTER THE TUSCARORA WARS IN 1711 MOST OF THE TUSCARORA MOVED TO PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK OVER A PERIOD OF OVER 90 YEARS.AND ALIGNED WITH THE IROQUOIS. THEY HAD ANCESTRAL CONNECTIONS. IN 1722 THEY WERE SPONSORED BY THE ONEIDA AND ACCEPTED AS 1 OF 6 NATIONS. AFTER THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THE ONEIDA AND TUSCARORA SHARED RESERVATION LAND WITH THE ONEIDA BEFORE GETTING THEIR OWN. THEIR NATION IN NEW YORK IS FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED.

A MINORITY ARE IN NORTH CAROLINA WITHOUT RESERVATION LAND. SOME MOVED TO ONTARIO WITH THE SIX NATIONS. HISTORICALLY THEY HAD THREE TRIBES: 1) KAUTANOHAKAU. 2) KAWELSIKA, 3) TUSCARORA. THEY WERE ALSO ACTIVE IN NEW YORK AND ONTARIO. ONE HISTORIAN SAID THEY HAD 24 LARGE TOWNS AND COULD ASSEMBLE 6000 WARRIORS. IN 1710 CHIEF HANCOCK REPORTED THE WARRIORS NUMBERED 1200, AND THEIR TOTAL POPULATION MAY HAVE BEEN THREE TIMES THAT.

THE COLONISTS ENCROACHED ON SECOND TERRITORY AND KIDNAPPED THEM AND SOLD THEM AS SLAVES. SOME WERE TRANSPORTED TO PENNSYLVANIA. BOTH GROUPS SUFFERED POPULATION LOSS AFTER INFECTIOUS DISEASES. CHIEF HANCOCK ATTACKED THE SETTLERS IN 1711.

MANY OF THE INDIAN GROUPS ATTACKED THE SETTLERS IN MANY LOCALS. THEY WERE AGAINST THE PLANTERS ON THE ROANOKE AND NEARBY RIVERS. THEY KILLED 100'S OF SETTLERS AND KEY POLITICAL FIGURES.

IN 1712 A LARGE FORCE ORGANIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA INCLUDED 600 MILITIA AND 300 NATIVE AMERICANS TO ATTACK THE SOUTHERN TUSCARORA, THEY WERE DEFEATED - 100 WERE CAPTURED AS PRISONERS. AFTER ANOTHER BATTLE IN 1713, 1500 TUSCARORA FLED TO NEW YORK TO JOIN THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY.

1500 TUSCARORA MOVED TO VIRGINIA AND A MAJORITY RETURNED TO NORTH CAROLINA. THESE FOLKS SIGNED A TREATY WITH THE COLONY IN 1718 GRANTING THEM 56,000 ACRES.ON THE ROANOKE RIVER. IN 1722 THIS WAS KNOWN AS THE BERLIE COUNTY RESERVATION OR INDIAN WOODS.

IN YEARS AFTERWARDS THE GOVERNMENT FORCED THEM TO SELL OFF TRACTS OF THEIR LAND. BY 1760'S MANY MOVED TO NEW YORK.

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