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Pedee |
| Ethnie: | PEDEE (PEE DEE) |
| Language: | Pedee |
| Family: | Southeastern Siouan |
| Stock: | Siouan Proper |
| Phylum: | Siouan |
| Macro-Culture: | Eastern Woodlands |
| Speakers | None |
| The Pedee were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe. The eastern Siouans fissioned from the greater Siouan culture about 1,000 B. C. and crossed the Appalachians displacing the previous inhabitants. The Pedee lived along the middle course of the Great Pee Dee River in South Carolina. Conflicts forced the disbanding of the tribe. Most joined the Catawba. |
| Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages) |
| SC ? |
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| Year | History |
| 1670 | Smallpox epidemic after this year |
| 1715 | Located near present Cheraw |
| 1716 | Thought given to establish a trading post in Pedee territory abandoned because it was thought it could not be protected |
| 1717 | Tribal member visited Charleston on friendship mission |
| 1744 | Pedee and Natchez killed some Catawbas and were driven from their lands into White settlements |
| 1752 | Most joined Catawba |
| 1808 | One half-breed woman only surviving in small Pedee/Cape Fear village previously founded under a chief called "King Johnny" |
| Year | Total SC Pop. | Source | |
| 1600 | 600 | Mooney estimate | |
| 1700 | 100 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1715 | 0 | Not mentioned separately in census | |
| 1800 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Cape Fear, Waccamaw |
| Pedee Sites: |
| Indian Trader John Lawson's Journal http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6379 |
| Pee Dee http://sciway3.net/proctor/state/natam/peedee.html |
| Pee Dee http://www.sciway.net/hist/indians/peedee.html |
| Pee Dee Archeology http://www.drfarchaeology.com/Content/johanneskolbsi/Great%20Pee%20Dee%20Archaeology.htm |
| Pee Dee Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t321 |
| Pee Dee Culture http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/town/pee-dee.htm |
| Pee Dee Indian Nation of Beaver Creek http://hometown.aol.com/peedeendn/myhomepage/ |
| Pee Dee Indian Tribe http://mcdcpeedeeindiantrib.tripod.com/ |
| Pedee Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/pedeehist.htm |
| Previous Pee Dee Archeology http://www.drfarchaeology.com/Content/johanneskolbsi/previous.htm |
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