Native+Americans

= ﻿__The Algonquin Tribes__ = The Algonquin Tribes get their name from the language they speak, Algonquin. This language was shared all along the Atlantic Coast. This is present-day Maine down to North Carolina. The small groups of the Algonquin Tribe included the Chowanoc, Pasquotank, and the Waccamaw Indians. Like all other natives, they took advantage of their environment. They were heavily dependent on fish that they caught from the sea and sounds. They also ate many different kinds of fruits, melons, walnuts,cucumbers, gourdes, pease, and divers roots. The maize(corn) they grew was very white, faire, and tasted good. []

=﻿ __**Tuscarora**__= The Tuscarora dominated the Costal Plain in the 1500s. The name //Tuscarora// means "hemp gatherers." Hemp was used to make rope and binding cord. This group had about fifteen villages. Each village contained aout 300 or 500 people. They were located near the Neuse and Tar Rivers. Their legs and feet were claimed to be the handsomest in the world and had exceedingly shaped limbs. The Tuscarora were kin to the Iroquois. They just separtated from the Iroquois long ago in the 1400s. In order to give their infants correct form of posture later in life, they were laced down hard to a board. []

=__The Catawba__= The Catawba are the largest of more than a dozen different groups located in the Piedmont. The Catawba got their name from Juan Pardo because he heard them say something that sound like //ka pa tu.// It means "where the river divides" The Catawba were distantly related to Sioux tribes of the Great Plains.They made burnt-black pottery out of various clays in the area. This distinguished the Catwaba that called themselves "wa" from the other Catwaba that got their name from Juan Pardo.

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=﻿**__The Cherokee__**= The Cherokee have been the most famous Indian group in North Carolina history. This is because of their large size and location. The Cherokee were one of the largest tribes in what became the United States. The Cherokee were so large that they had 3 distinctive divisions: "The lower Cherokee, the middle Cherokee, and the upper Cherokee." The most important villages, meaning in terms of size and prestige, were located among the "middle Cherokee." The villages on the upper reaches of the Savannah River in South Carolina and Georgia were the "lower Cherokee." The people that lived in the Tennessee River Valley(what is present-day Tennessee) were the "upper Cherokee." Due to lacking clay to make pottery, they, instead, stored many items in intricately woven baskets made of green strips of tender branches. These baskets were others made from oak trees. Through the centuries Cherokee baskets have been some of the most beautiful works of art made by North Carolinians.

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