FDI - Chowanoc

The Chowanoc were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe. They were located on the Chowan River about the junction of the Meherrin and Blackwater Rivers in North Carolina. They suffered from conflicts with the neighbor nations and the Whites. They were absorbed into the Tuscarora, their former enemies.

Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages)

NC (6)

Year	*History*
1584	Met by Europeans
1663	Treaty with English
1670	Smallpox epidemic soon after this year
1675	Violated treaty and began war
1676	Defeated by British, placed on a reservation on Bennett's Creek
1707	Reservation size reduced from 12 square miles to 6
1712	Sided with colonists in Tuscarora War
1723	Placed on reservation with Tuscarora and incorporated

Year	Total NC Pop.	Source
1600	1,500	Mooney estimate
1700	250	NAHDB calculation
1713	240	Mooney estimate
1755	5	Governor Dobbs
1800	0	NAHDB calculation
1900	0	NAHDB calculation
2000	0	NAHDB calculation

Other speakers of the same language:

Hatteras, Machapunga, Moratok, Pamilco, Powhatan, Weapemeoc

Chowanoc Sites:

Algonkian Ethnohistory of the Carolina Sound http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jmack/algonqin/mook2.htm

Cultural Anthropology of Indian Villages http://www.lost-colony.com/cultural.html

Chowanoc Indians http://carolana.com/Carolina/Native_Americans/native_americans_chowanoc.html

Chowanoc Indian Tribe http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/chowanoc/chowanochist.htm

Powhatan Dictionary http://www.wicocomico-indian-nation.com/pages/dictionary.html

Powhatan Language http://www.native-languages.org/powhatan.htm

Powhatan Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=pim

Powhatan Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=pim

White-De Bry Map of Virginia (1590) http://www.nps.gov/fora/whitede.htm

*Ethnie:*	CHOWANOC
*Language:*	Powhatan
*Family:*	Eastern Algonquian
*Stock:*	Algonquian
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands
Speakers	None