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This is a lengthy article but worth keeping, the materials sited here and the references are noteworthy.
Aswell there are many names from Saponi families etc that I see in these pages.
http://www.angelfire.com/wv2/dillon1944/native_american_timeline.htm
Hi Tom, I have been skimming the link you sent today with the Saponi Timeline. I noticed this section as I was skimming and wanted to ask you a question. Do you think this could be why we sometimes see similar designs in the NE & SE beadwork designs?? This was about 2/3 of the way down the page
<<<1722– Saponi Indians
Tribe of Siouan linguistic stock that originally live in Albermarle Co., Virginia. During the 1600s and early 1700s they were constantly on the move trying to escape attacks by the Iroquois. When the attacks subsided as a result of the Treaty of Alabany (1722), they moved northward into Pennsylvania with the Tutelo Indians. Treaty of Peace reached with the Six Nations of Iroquois>>>
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I have a question? how far north were the saponi peoples prior to 1600 a.d.?
I am asking because i just came across a website for the sisksika blackfeet and it stated that they were an eastern woodland tribe until the colonist came and forced them westward and i was wandering if some of them could have mixed in with the saponi and thats how they also aquired their name.
Hi Dovelady
sorry I just googled eastern blackfeet and eastern sisksika and picked only the site which i don’t remember now because i got busy but i did not pick this site or any link related to saponi tribe only sisksika or western blackfeet but i was curious since the saponi were the oldest known with the blackoot id that if the western blackfoot were originally on the east coast that if their name came from intermarriage of some of the Algonquion peoples and the saponi before the colonist came and thats how they aquired the name?
If i find the site again I will post it but on the site it said that historians list the sisksika as an eastern woodland tribe like the western sioux and that they were originally located east of the great lakes region and as far east as the coast but it did not say how far south they would have been and that they were among the first tribes to be forced west when coastal colonials started moving in on their land.
Well don’t read everthing that is on the web, the western Blackfoot have been here for a very long time, infact probably thousands of years.
They are an algonquin speaking people like many others, but where they originated from could be anyone’s guess. They do have an old eastern style pipes, but that style of pipe and the sacred smoking technologies that are with those folks today are not what you would call indicative of an eastern Woodland origin, there are connections but I personally think that it’s sparse.
The western or Northern Blackfoot are my close nieghbours friends and relatives so I am pretty familiar with those folks and the culture here, little to nothing is “eastern woodland”.
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