Eastern Siouan peoples

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The Eastern Siouan peoples are a group of Indigenous nations of the Eastern Woodlands region of North America who speak or historically spoke Siouan languages and share related cultural and historical traditions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous ethnic group collective
Native American peoples
Siouan-speaking peoples
continent North America
culturalPractice ceremonial use of tobacco
clan-based social organization
communal hunting practices
culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
dwellingType palisaded villages
wood and bark houses
experienced displacement due to European colonization
population decline from disease and warfare
hasPart Catawba people
Cheraw people
Eno people
Keyauwee people
linked to: Congaree people

Manahoac people
linked to: Occaneechi people

Monacan people
Occaneechi people
Saponi people
Shakori people
Sissipahaw people
Tutelo people
Waccamaw people
Woccon people
historicalLanguage Catawba language
Monacan language
Saponi language
Tutelo language
historicalPeriod colonial era in North America
pre-Columbian era
languageBranch Eastern Siouan branch of Siouan
languageFamily Siouan languages
locatedIn Eastern Woodlands cultural area
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
modernDescendantGroups Catawba Indian Nation
Monacan Indian Nation
Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation
partOf Siouan peoples
practiced hunting and gathering
maize-based agriculture
relatedTo Dakotan peoples
linked to: Sioux people

Missouri River Siouan peoples
Western Siouan peoples
linked to: Western Siouan
traditionalRegion Appalachian foothills
Atlantic coastal plain margins
Piedmont region of North Carolina
Piedmont region of South Carolina
Piedmont region of Virginia
treatyRelationsWith British colonial governments
French colonial authorities

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Occaneechi people partOf Eastern Siouan peoples
Catawba language subfamily Eastern Siouan languages
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Biloxi people arePartOf Siouan-speaking peoples
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Ofo partOf Siouan-speaking peoples
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Ofo hasCategory Siouan peoples
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Waccamaw languageFamily Eastern Siouan languages
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Biloxi language subfamily Ohio Valley Siouan
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Tutelo language historicalAffiliation Eastern Siouan–Catawban group
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Iowa (Ioway) tribe subgroupOf Siouan peoples
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Tutelo people linguisticBranch Eastern Siouan
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Tutelo people partOf Eastern Siouan-speaking peoples
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Eastern Siouan peoples relatedTo Missouri River Siouan peoples
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Shakori people culturalAffiliation Eastern Siouan peoples
Saponi people ethnicGroup Eastern Siouan peoples
Yesa ethnicClassification Eastern Siouan
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Tutelo subfamily Eastern Siouan
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Tutelo isPartOf Eastern Siouan branch
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Yesan subfamily Eastern Siouan
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Tutelo language subfamily Eastern Siouan
subject linked to: Yesan
linked to: Eastern Siouan peoples
Tutelo tribe partOf Eastern Siouan peoples