GC3RG5ZMondo's NAT #161 - Congaree
Type: Traditional
| Size: Micro
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By: mondou2@
| Hide Date: 07/29/2012
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N39° 57.250 W105° 01.644 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Native American Tribes series.Congaree A small tribe, supposed to be Siouan, who formerly lived in South Carolina. In 1693 the Cherokee complained that the Shawnee, Catawba, and Congaree took prisoners from among them and sold them as slaves in Charleston. In 1701 they were found on the northeast bank of Santee River below the junction of the Wateree. However, on a 1715 map of 1715 they were placed on the south bank of Congaree River, about opposite the site of Columbia. A fort bearing the tribal name was established near the village in 1718. They were a small tribe, having lost many by tribal feuds but, more by smallpox. The Congaree, like their neighbors, took part in the Yamasi War in 1715, as a result of which they were so reduced that they were compelled to move up the country and join the Catawba, with whom they were still living in 1743.