GC47AC6Mondo's NAT #259 - Keyauwee
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By: mondou2@
| Hide Date: 03/08/2013
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N40° 00.773 W105° 07.844 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Native American Tribes series.Keyauwee.
A small tribe formerly living in North Carolina, affiliated with the Tutelo, Saponi, and Occaneechi. Nothing retrains of their language, but they perhaps belonged to the Siouan family, from the fact of their intimate association with well known Siouan tribes of the east. In 1701 Lawson found them in a palisaded village about 30 miles north east of Yadkin river, near the present Highpoint, Guilford county, N. C. Around the village were large fields of corn. At that time they were about equal in number to the Saponi and had, as chief, Keyauwee Jack, who was by birth a Congaree, but had obtained the chieftaincy by marriage with their "queen." Lawson says most of the men wore mustaches or whiskers, an unusual custom for Indians. At the time of this traveler's visit the Keyauwee were on the point of joining the Tutelo and Saponi for better protection against their enemies. Shortly afterward they, together with the Tutelo, Saponi, Occaneechi, and Shakori, moved down toward the settlements about Albemarle Island, the five tribes with one or two others not named numbering then only about 750 souls.
In 1716 Gov. Spotswood of Virginia proposed to settle the Keyauwee with the Eno and Sara at Enotown on the frontier of North Carolina, but was prevented by the opposition of that colony. They moved southward with the Sara, and perhaps also the Eno, to Pedee river, S. C., some time in 1733. On Jefferys' snap of 1761 their village is marked on the Pedee above that of the Sara, about the boundary between the two Carolinas. With this notice they disappear from history, having probably been absorbed by the Catawba.
08/24/2018 By scrxn Gave the location an up and down for 5 minutes and couldn’t find it. A bunch of wasps made it a little tough to be thorough though.
07/16/2018 By mommysammyash I looked on that spot four times, but from the wrong angle.
Mondo's NAT #259 - Keyauwee
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