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I found this and wondered how accurate it was.
Did the Iroquois drive the Sioux out of Virginia around 1700?
I have seen where Brenda said the Orange Co, NC group may have come from the Pee Dee River area prior to moving to the VA-NC border, before moving west.
http://www.chesterfielddistrictchapter.org/chesterfieldsc/cherawtimelinepartone.html
Around 1700: The Cheraw Indians come to Cheraw. The tribe had come earlier to the Carolinas after being driven out of Virginia by the Iroquois. Their main village was on the present site of the town. The Cheraws were of Sioux extraction, and were an agricultural people. They were more powerful and warlike than the nearby Pee Dees.
Originally posted by rockhound
I have seen where Brenda said the Orange Co, NC group may have come from the Pee Dee River area prior to moving to the VA-NC border, before moving west.
Is that Brenda Collins Dillon? I am interested in this particular line of migration. Where can I find this?
Thanks,
Brenda
Replying to Rockhound’s original question, which was more specifically about the Cheraw: that Alan V. Briceland work, Westward from Virginia (1987) — which I have cited before and which is now floating around amongst other forum members — discusses this in the context of Lawson’s 1701 visit (when these folks were already in NC, but only recently). This is from p. 185:
Lawson’s experience among the Saponi offers a possible explanation of one of the most interesting questions about the Saponi — why they abandoned their Staunton River home and relocated some 110 miles to the southwest. It appears that they were driven from Virginia by the Iroquois probably about the same time and in the same manner as the Occaneechee. Lawson learned that ten days before his arrival, “the Sinnagers or Jennitos” (Saponi terms for the Iroquois) had raided through the area.
[And so on.]
Yes, there are numerous references in the colonial records to the feud between the Seneca and the VA/NC Siouan. It’s said at one point there were more Saponi/Tutelo alive and well living as Seneca adoptees than there were at home.
I was in touch at one point with a Blackfoot descendant from Ohio whose girlfriend lived on a Seneca reservation with people who knew they were originally Tutelo. I never have followed through on that, but would like to one day.
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