FDI - Eno

The Eno were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe that suffered early from the European arrival as well as from conflicts with other tribes. The Eno are listed as Southeastern Siouan herein and considered so by Swanton, Lawson lists them as having a village among the Iroquoian Tuscarora and therefore a component, and Speck suggested they were an Algonquian speaking Powhatan band.

The Eno were located on the Eno River in present Orange and Durham Counties, North Carolina. They were said to have valiantly resisted Spanish advances. The survivors of the White intrusion confederated with the Catawba.

Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages)

NC (1 [?])

Present Locations

Confederated into the Catawba in SC

Year	*History*
1671	Mentioned by Lederer; later smallpox epidemic
1701	Mentioned by Lawson as occupying a town with the Shakori
1714	Moved toward Virginia settlements with other tribes
1743	Joined Catawba

Year	Total NC Pop.	Source
1600	1,500	Mooney estimate
1700	100	NAHDB calculation
1800	0	NAHDB calculation
1900	0	NAHDB calculation
2000	0	NAHDB calculation

Other speakers of the same language:

Keyauwee, Sissipahaw

Eno Indians Sites:

Cultural History of the Eno River Basin http://www.enoriver.org/eno/River/culture.html

Eno Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/eno/enohist.htm

Eno-Occaneechi http://www.ibiblio.org/rla/dig/html/split/report50b.html

Eno Tribe http://ermp.tv/eno-river-tribe.php

Indian Trader John Lawson's Journal http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6379

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