FDI - Cheraw

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Cheraw

*Ethnie:*	CHERAW
*Language:*	Catawba
*Family:*	Southeastern Siouan
*Stock:*	Siouan Proper
*Phylum:*	Siouan
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands
Speakers	None

The Cheraw were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe located about the head of the Saluda River in North Carolina. The eastern Siouans fissioned from the greater Siouan culture about 1,000 B. C. and crossed the Appalachians, displacing the previous inhabitants. They suffered greatly from conflicts with the larger nations of the area as well as colonists. Many of the survivors absorbed into the Keyauwee and Catawba.

Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages)

NC ?

Present Locations

Confederated with the Keyauwee and later the Catawba

Year	*History*
1540	Visited by De Soto (called Xuala)
1670	Smallpox epidemic sometime after this year
169X	Moved to Virginia
1710	Moved southeast and joined Keyauwee due to Iroquois attack, then attacked by North Carolina
1726	Joined Catawba
1759	Joined English against Ft. Duquesne

Year	Total NC Pop.	Source
1600	1,200	Mooney estimate
1700	1,000	NAHDB calculation
1715	140	Census
1768	50	Swanton
1800	0	NAHDB calculation
1900	0	NAHDB calculation
2000	0	NAHDB calculation

Other speakers of the same language:

Catawba, Congaree, Santee, Sewee, Wateree, Waxhaw, Woccon

Cheraw Sites:

Catawba Language http://www.angelfire.com/az2/catawba/

Catawba Language http://www.native-languages.org/catawba.htm

Catawba Language http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=CHC

Catawba Language Department http://www.ccppcrafts.com/language/

Catawba Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_lang_family.asp?code=CHC

Cheraw http://www.sciway.net/hist/indians/cheraw.html

Cheraw Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/siouan/cherawhist.htm

FDI - Lumbee http://www.fourdir.com/lumbee.htm

Su Sani of the Cheraw Tribe http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~farmeranderwinfamilies/Homepage/susong.htm