FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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Blue Ridge
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Piedmont
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Coastal Zone
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Sandhills
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Yamasees (also spelled Yamassees or Yemassees) were a multiethnic confederation of Native Americans who lived in the coastal region of present-day northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River and later in northeastern Florida.
Detailed explanation-2: -SC Location, Territory – Yemassee Indians Traditional: Near the mouth of the Savannah River in Beaufort and Jasper counties. Altamaha Town along the Okatie River was the principal settlement.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Yemassee lived along the coast of Florida and Georgia until the Spanish tried to make them laborers so they traveled to the Low Country of South Carolina. They built towns near the Savannah River and the Combahee River.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Catawba confederacy emerged from the Yamasee War as the most powerful Indian force of the Piedmont region, especially as the Tuscarora migrated away to join the Iroquois in the north.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Catawba, Pee Dee, Chicora, Edisto, Santee, Yamassee, and Chicora-Waccamaw tribes are all still present in South Carolina as are many descendants of the Cherokee.