Wateree people
Native American tribe in the interior of the present-day Carolinas in the United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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See also: Wateree (disambiguation)
The Wateree were a Native American tribe in the interior of the present-day Carolinas. They probably belonged to the Siouan-Catawba language family. First encountered by the Spanish in 1567 in Western North Carolina, they migrated to the southeast and what developed as South Carolina by 1700, where English colonists noted them.
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extinct | |
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United States ( South Carolina) | |
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unknown, possibly an Eastern Siouan language[1] | |
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Native American religion | |
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probably Catawba people[1] |
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There they had settled along the Wateree River, near the site of what developed as present-day Camden, South Carolina. Originally a large tribe, they suffered high mortality during the Yamasee War of 1715 and became extinct as a tribe by the end of the century.