other tribes in North Carolina, now extinct, belonged to this
nation.
Several tribes formerly distinct appear to have coalesced
with the Catawbas. Adair* mentions the Cheraws, Wate-
rees, Congarees, Enoes, &c. as having joined the Catawbas.
Mr. Gallatin thinks Adair was mistaken when he said that
these nations spoke different dialects. The words collected
by Dr. Smith Barton are nearly identical with Mr. Miller’s
vocabulary of the Catawba language.
Of numerous tribes who formerly occupied the southern
parts of the United States territory, only few and obscure
notices can be collected.
At the era of the colonisation of South Carolina four tribes
are mentioned between the rivers Ashley and Savannah. The
Stonoes, Edistoes, and Westoes were probably of one rice :
they were expelled by the fourth nation, the Savannahs. The
three former are lost sight of: the Savannahs appear to | be
the race afterwards better known under their native name
Yamassees; the principal town of these people was Polhe-
talico. It is probable that they were a tribe of Muskhogee.
A great number of small tribes are mentioned by Lawson
and others in the two Carolinas, of most of whom nothing is
preserved but their names. Mr. Gallatin has collected the
followingSewees, Santees, Wyniaws, Congarees, Wate-
rees, Wax saws, residing, according to Lawson, near the
Santee River;—Cheraws, Cape Fear Indians,, Esaws, and
Kadapaws of Lawson, supposed to be the Catawbas;—Sapo*
nas, Toteros, Keyauwees, Sissipahaws, Enoes. Except, the
Catawbas these tribes and their languages are entirely unknown.
In the eastern part of North Carolina, besides
Iroquois and Lenapians, the Woccons are mentioned, the
Machapanga, Bear River Indians, Connamox, and Neuse
Indians, Coramines, Saponas, Chowans, Wyanokes, Sawara :
in South Carolina the Saluda. Lawson, from whom most of
these names are taken, was struck by the great diversity of
all their languages. Mr. Gallatin has found the vocabulary
of the Woccons to be, probably, cognate with the Catawba.
* Adair’s American Indians.
We havC^seen that the/CongareeSj Cheraivs, and some other
small tribes , were also of the same race.
Section II I.—O f the. four greaP Southern Nations, the
: Oherokees, QkiMsaM^^&i^Pdksfdnd the Mwkhogeef;
and o f the Greek ^Co nfederd'cy. a
These nations are classed.mndeV? m b head' by #Ahf#fehiI
writers; -partly; as it^appeaTs; bn account5 of their'political
relations to tho-government-of the- United States. Their sebl-
lectiv-e numbers, according to the estimates of the'American
War Department, dmount to 6f;000TOuls. ^ JEl:eept the fast
%@@0,fthey ali^belong/'fo threev races; which, in; the Opiniori
of/Mr. Gallatin, may 'be Te-ferredshltMatily^ifo^tWO'fomili^^
l.lTheGhceokeeS m b 16,000*
2* ?Tfce Ghoktahs .«& § f ; . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,990
.oThe Ghikasahs' i V' s
■'-•The;MuskhOgees, Seririiiales/nndiHitcMtiSed^i .
3. Othcii 'distmfct natio&sy rthe^Acheesy 'Alibttffiofis, ’
* - GoOsadai; ^ndaNatchesi . .Uf.s Jl v r i . H
67,000'
Paragraph* —The* CheTBkyel.*““S
•The Cherokees, ChelakeCsl1 0i^nfo¥e' ^fo^my "T^alakiei^
possessed the country to the north dhd sduth of the ’southwesterly'
continuation Of # e Ap^afacffiah1 MohttaihS, and'on
both sides of the Tennessee or^Ch^ofo^'Rifef And fls tributary
streams. They were sepafafod^TroMi Yhe Ohio by thd
territory of the Shawnoes, who dwelt ':B 8 w f e ^ lh ^ !'ahd:thht
river. Their country was; s |r o h ^ ^ ’® ^ ^ lf^fflre^i ;&utn^ ro 4
nation. By Adair inPl76ii rii0iri%afrforA # ife -llttffohfed "tit*
2,300. He says that forty years before¥hey had *6|06by This;
diminution,' if i t 5 happened, whe - aht^bedinf1 td ririffetemiMi
between the Cherokees and Europeans. Since they came
into' contact with Europeans, notwithstanding- successive
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