Congaree people

The people of the Congaree is an extinct in the late 18th century tribe of North American Indians. Home of around 1600, estimated at 800 people tribe was on the banks of the Congaree River in South Carolina in the United States, near present-day Columbia in the area of ​​Congaree National Park.

Presumably, they were a people of the Sioux and closely akin to the Catawba and Wateree to their neighbors, it is assumed that they belonged to the family of languages ​​of the Sioux.

The Congaree settled in the Piedmont region, by John Lawson their precise location on the northeastern shore of the Santee River was described below the confluence of the Wateree River. They were already significantly decimated by epidemics before 1715 took part in the Yamasee War. A census that year showed a total population of 40 people, 22 of whom were men. More than half of the tribe was captured by white settlers in 1716 and sold into slavery in the West Indies. The remaining Congaree were added to the root of the Catawba, the dialect of the Congaree is one of the popularly spoken languages ​​of the Catawba.