Woccon
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Woccon |
| Ethnie: | WOCCON |
| Language: | Catawba |
| Family: | Southeastern Siouan |
| Stock: | Siouan Proper |
| Phylum: | Siouan |
| Macro-Culture: | Eastern Woodlands |
| Speakers | None |
| The Woccon 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 Woccon were located in North Carolina about present Goldsboro between the Neuse River and one of its tributaries. It is theorized that they separated from the Waccamaw (Rights). They were destroyed in the Tuscarora War against the colonists. |
| Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages) |
| SC (2) |
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| Year | History |
| 1670 | Smallpox epidemic after this year |
| 1701 | Lawson recorded 150 words of their language |
| 1711 | Fought against Whites in Tuscarora Wars, exterminated; remnants fled to Catawba or remained with Tuscarora |
| Year | Total SC Pop. | Source | |
| 1600 | 600 | Mooney estimate | |
| 1700 | 400 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1701 | 400 | Lawson | |
| 1800 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Catawba, Cheraw, Congaree, Santee, Sewee, Wateree, Waxhaw |
| Woccon 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 |
| Indian Trader John Lawson's Journal http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6379 |
| Woccon Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/siouan/wocconhist.htm |
| Woccon Language http://www.native-languages.org/woccon.htm |
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