Cape Fear Indians

The people of the Cape Fear Indians is an extinct in the 18th century tribe of North American Indians. Home was the small, about 200 people extensive master at the mouth of the Cape Fear River in North Carolina on the southeast coast of the United States in today's Carolina Beach State Park.

They were probably related to the Sioux, maybe they were a subset of the Waccamaw Sioux, who settled in the nearby estuary of the Waccamaw River. From the language of the Cape Fear Indians no words were obtained, it is assumed that they also used a Sioux language.

After the first encounters with English settlers in 1661 drove the Indians from their land this, but later sold parts of the country to other colonists and were generally peaceful. After these early mentions appeared a description of the tribe again only in a letter from 1719 on. They were mentioned by the governor of the colony, Colonel Johnson, as the root with 206 members, distributed over 5 villages. Of these villages, only the name of a village is well known: Necoes on the lower portion of the Cape Fear River. Apparently, they did the Yamasee War part and left their ancestral lands around 1725th The last mention is in 1751, they are described by the Albany Conference as a friendly small tribe.

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