The Cape Fear Indians

1. The Cape Fear Indians • By: Bradley Merritt, Erina McPherson, Kellie Bass 1

2. Their History • A small tribe, possibly Siouan, formerly living near the mouth of the Cape Fear River, N.C. • The English discovered them in 1661 when they made a colony there. • Their name for the area was Chicora. • The village now in present day is Brunswick County, N.C. 2

3. Languages • Their language was Pedee. 3

4. Food and Shelter • They ate buffalo and deer and they drank fresh water from the river. • Their shelters were made of animal skins and sticks. Their shelters were teepees. 4

5. Hunting • They would send Scouts out to spy on the herds and come back and report on the size of the herd. • They attacked with all the men and boys, using fire and scaring them. They stampeded them into huge corrals where they killed them with spears. 5

6. Interacting with The Colonists • Because of the death of major tribes in North Carolina caused by the pirates the Cape Fear Indians fled South. 6

7. Interacting With The Colonists • So there wasn’t much interaction with the Indians and the Colonists. • There was not much peace between the pirates and Indians. The pirates were almost always in war with the Indians. 7

8. Interacting With The Colonists • The pirates and Indians did not trade because they were at war the whole time the pirates were there. • The Indians and pirates didn’t work together because of all the wars. 8

9. The Columbian Exchange • The Columbian Exchange was the interchange of nature. • Life farms was called the Columbian Exchange, it was called this because, on the arrival of the Europeans to North America in 1492. • There began a massive transformation in the global echo system. 9

10. The Columbian Exchange • The Cape Fear Indians were effected by the Columbian Exchange by death of friends and family. • So they had to move south to save the rest of their tribes lives. 10

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13. Removal and Resettlement • President Andrew Jackson, having the executive responsibility for enforcement of the laws had this to say: "John Marshall has made his decision; let him enforce it now if he can." • Private John G. Burnett Captain Abraham McClellan "I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes, and driven at the bayonet point into the stockades. And in the chill of a drizzling rain on an October morning I saw them loaded like cattle or sheep into six hundred and forty-five wagons and started toward the west.... 13

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