Native+Americans

North Carolina Native Americans By: Jasmine Alvarez ﻿There were four different tribes in North Carolina. They were the Algonquin, the Tuscarora, the Catawba, and the Cherokee.

 The Algonquin tribesope various versions of the Algonquin language. It was spoken in several tribes along the Atlantic Coast from Maine to North Carolina. The groups included the Chowanoc Posquotank Indians who lived up north of the Alremarle Sound. The largest group of Cape Fear the Waccamawgave their name to one of the largest of the Carolina Bays.They cared anout the environment they depended on fish. The Algonquins are also famous for the watercolor paintings made by John White of the Lost Colony.

 The Tuscarora was located by the Coastal Plain. The group had about fifteen villages each had about 300 to 500 people they were neat the Neuse and tar rivers. The word Tuscarora ment "Hemp Gatherers". The Tuscarora were kin to the famous Iroquois nation of New York. One early explorer said that their bodies were flat and that their legs and feet were the handsomest in the world.  The Catawba had more than a dozen different groups beyond the fall lineand lived in the rolling hills of the Piedmont. They had many names which are now survived as places in North Carolina. Many moved back and forth across the Piedmont in the 1500s. The Sapona spent several decades concentrated on the Yadkin Riverat one of its fords. The Occaneechi lived to what is now Hillsboroughand and are known to be miners to the Uwharries. Regardless of the name they always spoke the same language.

 The Cherokeehas been the most famous group in North Carolina history because of the size and the location. At first they lived in the Ohio River. They were also kin to the Iroquois, but they did not have the same good relationship with them as the Tuscarora did. They have been driven out of their homeland after long years of fighting with the Iroquois. They first settled in the deep mountains during the heights of the Woodland period. Before the whites came the Cherokee controlled a mountain region of 40,000 square feet including parts of western North Carolina, eastern Tennesee, northern Alabama and Georgia, and western Virginia.