Historical Native American tribe from Virginia and North Carolina
For other uses, see Occoneechee.
Occaneechi
Map with general area of Occaneechi homelands
Regions with significant populations
United States (North Carolina, Virginia)
Languages
English, Occaneechi language
Religion
Indigenous religion
Related ethnic groups
Saponi, Tutelo, Biloxi, and Ofo peoples[1]
The Occaneechi are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands whose historical territory was in the Piedmont region of present-day North Carolina and Virginia.[2]
In the 17th century they primarily lived on the large, 4-mile (6.4 km) long Occoneechee Island and east of the confluence of the Dan and Roanoke rivers, near current-day Clarksville, Virginia.[3][2] They spoke one of the Siouan languages and were linguistically related to the Saponi, Tutelo,[1] Eno, and neighboring Southeastern Siouan language–speaking peoples.
In 1676, in the course of Bacon's Rebellion, the tribe was attacked by militias from the Colony of Virginia and decimated. Also under demographic pressure from European settlements and newly introduced infectious diseases, the Saponi and Tutelo came to live near the Occaneechi on adjacent islands. By 1714 the Occaneechi moved to join the Tutelo, Saponi, and other Siouan people living on a 36-square-mile (93 km2) reservation in current-day Brunswick County, Virginia. It included a fort called Christanna. The Siouan people had been drastically reduced to approximately 600 people. Fort Christanna was closed in 1717, after which there are few written references to the Occaneechi. Colonists recorded that they left the area in 1740 and migrated north for protection with the Haudenosaunee.
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^ abJames Mooney (1912). "Occaneechi". In Frederick Webb Hodge (ed.). Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30. Vol. 2 (Second ed.). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. p. 103. Retrieved 19 February 2024 – via Google Books.
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Susquehannock. Bacon persuaded the Occaneechi to attack the closest Susquehannock encampment. After the Occaneechi returned with Susquehannock prisoners...
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