FDI - Keyauwee

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Keyauwee

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

The Keyauwee were a sedentary hunter/ farmer tribe. They were located on the Uwharrie River at about present High Point. They probably united with the Catawba as a result of White pressures and conflicts with other ethnies. Their language is a subject of debate, (See Eno)

Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages)

NC (?)

Present Locations

May have absorbed into the Catawba and Lumbee in NC

Year	*History*
1670	Smallpox epidemic after this year
1701	Met by Lawson near present Highpoint, were considering joining Saponi and Tutelo for protection against enemies, later moved southward with Cheraw and lived on Pee Dee River
1761	Jeffry's atlas locates village near border of Carolinas, probably later united with Catawba and Lumbee

Year	Total NC Pop.	Source
1600	500	Mooney estimate
1700	300	NAHDB calculation
1800	0	NAHDB calculation
1900	0	NAHDB calculation
2000	0	NAHDB calculation

Other speakers of the same language:

Eno, Sissipahaw

Keyauwee Indians Sites:

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

Keyauwee http://www.sciway.net/hist/indians/keyauwee.html

Keyauwee Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/keyauwee/keyauweehist.htm

Keyauwee Indian Village http://www.johnwesley.edu/rm/indian.html

Town Creek Indian Mound http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/town/village.htm