While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Chowanoc (Algonquian: shawŭni
'south'; shawŭnogi'they of
the south,' 'southerners.' W. J. ). A tribe formerly living on Chowan river,
north east North Carolina, about the junction of Meherrin and Nottoway rivers. In 1584-85,
when first known, they were the leading tribe in that region. Two of their
villages at that time were Ohanoak and Maraton, and they probably occupied
also Catoking and Metocaum. Ohanoak alone was said to have 700 warriors.
They gradually dwindled away before the whites, and in 1701 were reduced
to a single village on Bennetts creek. They joined in the Tuscarora war
against the whites in 1711-12, and at its close the remnant, estimated at
about 240, were assigned a small reservation on Bennetts and Catherine creeks.
In 1820 they were supposed to be extinct. In addition to the settlements
named, the Chowanoc also occupied Ramushonok.
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