Congari , Congaree is a tribal group of Indians who lived in the central part of the modern state of South Carolina in the USA along the river of the same name . Although the first Europeans who met this tribe attributed it to the Sioux, given the geographical proximity to other Sioux, later researchers reject such a connection. At least the Siouan tribe of Wateri did not understand the language of Congari. [one]
At the beginning of 1715, the English colonist John Barnwell wrote that all the Congari known to him lived in the same village, where there were 22 men, 70 women and children. [2] During the Yamasian War of 1715, the Congari, together with other Indians, opposed the British colony of South Carolina. At least half of the tribe was destroyed or enslaved by the Cherokee colonists and their allies.
In subsequent years, the Congari were absorbed by the larger Katoba tribe and finally dissolved in it at the end of the 18th century.
Notes
- ↑ James Hart Merrell, The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal , Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. P. 110
- ↑ Gallay, Alan. The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South 1670-1717. - Yale University Press, 2002. - ISBN 0-300-10193-7 .
Links
- http://sciway.net/hist/indians/congaree.html South Carolina Indians - Conagree
- http://sciway3.net/proctor/state/natam/congaree.html SCGenWeb - The Congaree