[1_optimistic]

In reality, all Indian descended people in the upper south are either white/Indian, black/Indian or black/white/Indian. There are virtually no purebloods.

I agree……

That’s why it is difficult for me to pinpoint a specific tribe I have descend from. Currently, I consider myself American with Native American and African ancestry. It’s just simple that way.

[Jeff Beard]

I have found a book titled ” The Indians New World ” by James H. Merrell that really gives great insight of what life was like in Carolina Piedmont villages from the time period of European contact up until the removal period. I think indians at Fort Christanna more or less eventually became like settlement indians, at first they probably tended to marry within their own tribal group, with some women having children by white traders, as the Fort Christanna reservation was a multi-tribal community, they later probably married into other tribal groups that they would have shared similar customs such as a Saponi marrying a Occaneechi, rather than say a Tuscarora, as the Tuscarora were from a different tribal stock…Eventually as the Fort Christanna saponi became assimilated and more like settlement indians they probably married more into the white or black communities.

We know that when the Cheraw merged with the Catawba Nation they maintained a seperate town for a time within the Nation, and the Harris & George families among the Catawba have their origins in Cheraw Town.

As for the Eastern Band of Cherokees at Qualla Boundary there are roughly only 500 full-blood Cherokees among the Band, out of a population of 13,000 members, the rest of the members are mixed-blooded

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