The Siouan tribes of the East / by James Mooney.

  • James Mooney
Date:
1894
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    19). On Jefferys’ map of 1701 tlieir village is marked on the Pedee above that of the Sara, and about on the line between North Carolina and South Carolina. We find no later mention of them, but like the two other tribes just named they were probably incorporated with the Catawba. THE ENO, SHOCCOREE, AND ADSHUSHEER. Synonymy. Item.—Adair, History of the American Iuds., 1775, p. 224. Enoe.—Lawson (1714), History of Carolina, reprint 1860, p. 97. Haynokes.—Yardley (1654) in Hawks, North Carolina, 1858, vol. ii, p. 19. Oenock (or CEnock).—Lederer, Discoveries, 1672, p. 15. Cacores.—Yardley (1654) in Hawks, North Carolina, 1858, vol. ii, p. 19. Shabor.—Ibid., map (misprint). Shacco.—Byrd (1733), Hist, of the Dividing Line, 1866, vol. ii, p. 2. Sliackory.—Ibid., p. 15. Shakor.—Lederer, Discoveries, 1672, map. Shoccories.—Lawson (1714), History of Carolina, reprint, 1860, p. 97. Adshusheer.—Lawson, ibid., p. 95. As these tribes are usually mentioned together they may be treated in the same manner. It is doubtful if they, or at least the Eno and Shoccoree, were of Siouan stock, as they seem to have differed in physique and habit from their neighbors ; but as nothing is left of their language, and as their alliances were all with Siouan tribes, they can not well be discriminated. Little is known of them, for they disap¬ peared as tribal bodies about 1720, having been incorporated either with the Catawba on the south or with the Saponi and their confederates on the north. The Eno and Shoccoree are first mentioned by Yardley in 1654. Writing from his Virginia plantation he says that a visiting Tuskarora had described to him, among other tribes in the interior, aa great nation called Cacores,” of dwarfish stature, not exceeding that of boys of 14 years, yet exceedingly brave and fierce in fight and extremely active in retreat, so that even the powerful Tuskarora were unable to con¬ quer them. Near them was another u great nation” whom the Tuska¬ rora called Haynoke, by whom the northern advance of the Span¬ iards was valiantly resisted (Hawks, 1). From this it appears that the Eno were then at war with the Tuskarora, and that the Spaniards had advanced from the gold regions of the southern Alleglianies into central North Carolina. The next mention of these two tribes is by Lederer, who found them in 1672 living south of the Occaneechi about the heads of Tar and Neuse rivers. The general locality is still indicated in the names of Eno river and Sliocco creek, upper branches of these streams. In the name Shoccoree, the name proper is Sliocco, ree or ri being the demonstrative suffix of the Catawba and closely cognate languages,
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