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Pedee Indian Tribe
History
Pedee. A small
tribe, probably Siouan, formerly living on the middle course of Pedee
river, S. C. Nothing is known of its language and little of its history.
On a war map of 1715 its village is placed on the east bank, considerably
below that of the Cheraw, about the
present Cheraw. In 1744 they with others killed several
Catawba, which led to their being driven
from their lands into the white settlements.
Two years later they and the Sara are named as tribes
which had long been incorporated with the Catawba. In 1751 they were
mentioned at the Albany conference as one of the small tribes living among
the white people in South Carolina, against whom the
Iroquois were asked not to war.
While most of the Pedee joined the Catawba, there were some who remained
among the white settlements as late as 1755. See Mooney,
Siouan Tribes of the East, 1894.
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