The first tribe I am going to talk about is the Algonquin Tribes. The algonquins leaved along the coast in small goups and spoke various bersoions of the algonquin language. This particular language was shared by villages and trives all along the Atlantic Coast from what is today Maine down to North Carolina. The groups were the Chowanoc and Pasquotank Indians who lived nor of the Albemarle Sound. One Chowanoc village had mor than one thousand people in the late 1500s. These groups took particular advantage of their environment, depending heavily on fish taken from the sea and sounds. They ate many kindes of fruits, melons, Walnuts, Cucumbers, Gourdes , Pease And divers roots.
The next tribe I am going to talk about is the Tuscarora. This group dominated the Coastal Plain . This group had about fifteen large villages, each with about 300 to 500 people, concentrated near the Neuse and Tar rivers. The name Tuscarora means "hemp gatherers." The tuscarora were kin to the Iroquois nation of New Yourk and possibly came south in the 1400s. One Irouquis chief said the Tucsarora, "They were of us and went from us long ago." Tuscarora children "were laced down hard to a board in thir infancy" to give them the correct form of posture later.
Then we get to the Catawba.Beyond the fall line, more than a dozen different groupbs lived in the rolling hills of the Piedmont. They had many names, which have survived as places in North Carolina. Some of the Catawba actually called themselves is wa, "the people who lived on the river." They were distinguished by the burnt black pottery they made out of the various clays found in the area.
The cherokee have been the most famous indian group in noth carolina history, both for theur size and their location. The cherokee had been driven from their original homes after long years of fighting with the Iroquois. The cherokee first settled in the deep mountains during the height of the woodland period. Like the Catawba, the Cherokee called themselves another name yun wi ya. THey may have numbered more than 30,000 during the late woodlant perion. so numerous were they that they had three distinct divisions.
The first tribe I am going to talk about is the Algonquin Tribes. The algonquins leaved along the coast in small goups and spoke various bersoions of the algonquin language. This particular language was shared by villages and trives all along the Atlantic Coast from what is today Maine down to North Carolina. The groups were the Chowanoc and Pasquotank Indians who lived nor of the Albemarle Sound. One Chowanoc village had mor than one thousand people in the late 1500s. These groups took particular advantage of their environment, depending heavily on fish taken from the sea and sounds. They ate many kindes of fruits, melons, Walnuts, Cucumbers, Gourdes , Pease And divers roots.
Then we get to the Catawba.Beyond the fall line, more than a dozen different groupbs lived in the rolling hills of the Piedmont. They had many names, which have survived as places in North Carolina. Some of the Catawba actually called themselves is wa, "the people who lived on the river." They were distinguished by the burnt black pottery they made out of the various clays found in the area.
The cherokee have been the most famous indian group in noth carolina history, both for theur size and their location. The cherokee had been driven from their original homes after long years of fighting with the Iroquois. The cherokee first settled in the deep mountains during the height of the woodland period. Like the Catawba, the Cherokee called themselves another name yun wi ya. THey may have numbered more than 30,000 during the late woodlant perion. so numerous were they that they had three distinct divisions.