Native+Americans

= The Four Major Tribes of North Carolina =

Algonquin The Algonquin Indians lived on the coast in small groups and spoke the Algonquin language along with the Chowanoc, Pasquotank, and Waccamaw Indians. These tribes lived along the Atlantic Coast from today's Maine to North Carolina. These groups also took advantage over their environment by depending on mainly fish, but they ate many other things such as melons, walnuts, peas, diver's roots, cucumbers, different kinds of fruits, and gourds Tuscarora The Tuscarora dominated the Coastal Plain in the 1500s, each tribe housed about 300 to 500 Indians, and they lived along mainly along the Neuse and Tar Rivers. Their names, Tuscarora, means "hemp gatherers". They get this name from when they used hemp to make binding cords and rope. The Tuscarora are believed to have lived in New York with the Iroqouis in the 1400s, but traveled south. An early explorer of America commented that they had very flat bodies because when they were infants they were tied to a board to give them this body shape. Catawba     The Catawba lived by farming and hunting. Men fished and hunted for deer, small animals, and turkey while the women always tended to the crops which were squash and beans. The men killed game with bows and arrows and spears. The Catawba tribe is well known for their beautiful baskets, pots, and woodcarvings. Cherokee     The Cherokee moved to Oklahoma by the Trail of Tears in the 1880s. The US government made the Indian teritory in Oklahoma where the eastern Native American tribes were living, but some tribes didn't want to live there so they were forced to by the American army.