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!
Shakori. A
small tribe associated with the Eno and Adshusheer in North Carolina in
the 17th century. It is doubtful, from their physical characteristics,
whether they were of Siouan stock,
though they were allied with Siouan tribes. As the Shakori were constantly
associated with the Eno they were probably linguistically related to them.
They are first mentioned by Yardley (1654), who says a
Tuscarora Indian described to
him among other tribes of the interior "a great nation called Cacores," of
dwarfish stature, not exceeding. that of boys of 14 years, yet exceedingly
brave and fierce in fight and active in retreat, so that even the powerful
Tuscarora were unable to conquer them.
They were then near neighbors of the Eno. Lederer
(1672) found the villages of the two tribes about 14 miles apart, that of
the Shakori being farthest west. In 1701 Lawson found the two tribes
confederated, and the Adshusheer with them. Their village, which he calls
Adshusheer, was on. Eno river about 14 miles east of the Occaneechi
village, probably a short distance north east of the present Durham, N. C.
They resembled the Eno in their customs. According to
Col. Barnwell, commander in the Tuscarora war of 1711, they are identical
with the Sissipahaw.
Consult Mooney, Siouan Tribes of the
East, Bull. B. A. E., 1894.
