USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Catawba, Cheraw, Cape Fear, Eno, Keyauwee, Occaneechi, Tutelo, Saponi, Shakori, Sissipahaw, Sugeree, Wateree, Waxhaw, and Waccamaw of the Cape Fear River and Piedmont regions, were related Siouan-speaking peoples.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are eight (8) state-recognized tribes located in North Carolina: the Coharie, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Haliwa-Saponi, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, the Meherrin, the Sappony, the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation and the Waccamaw Siouan.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lumbee (Robeson and surrounding counties) Haliwa-Saponi (Halifax and Warren counties) Sappony (Person County) Meherrin (Hertford and surrounding counties)

Detailed explanation-4: -The Waccamaw inhabited the southeastern section of present-day North Carolina, living along the Cape Fear, Pee Dee, and Waccamaw Rivers. As a water-focused tribe, the Waccamaw were probably “seminomadic river-dwellers who subsisted on hunting and some farming” according to William G. DiNome.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Waccamaw Indians were a Siouan-speaking tribe, probably related to the so-called Cape Fear Indians, who populated parts of modern-day southeastern North Carolina.