Indians Tribes 1760 SC

The major language families of SC tribes as Algonquian, Iroquoian, Muskogean, and Siouan. 

A History of American Indians. Adair (1775)

Gov. Glen

Yamasee and Cusabo -- both extinguished in SC post 1720

Cherokee -- Iroquoian language, 

Creek / Muscogee -- Muscogee, Mvskoke language

Catawba -- Siouan or Siouan–Catawban language,  history

Chaloklowa Chickasaw -- very small village  near Hemingway SC.  Muscogee, Indiantown Church

According to Wiki:  "The Chaloklowas claim descent from a group of 50 Chickasaws who moved into South Carolina at the state's request in the 18th century." citation to Native American History

As mentioned by South Carolina Governor James Glen in 1750:

"There are several tribes of Indians whom we permit to live in the settlements, and we find them not only an inoffensive, but a useful people, they plant corn for food, and hunt for skins to purchase clothes, so that they are no burthen to us but a benefit— these are the Peedees, Notchees, Waterees, Cape Fear, Eutchees (a small tribe depending upon the Creeks), and a few Chickasaws who dare not return to their own nation and live upon lands given them by this Province upon Savannah River and sometimes stroll over to the Georgia side, besides these there are some nations in close alliance with this Province."

Boddie, William W., The History of Williamsburg, South Carolina From 1705 to 1923 (1923) (available online at Google Books) p. Indians - 2, 6, 15, 71 // Indigo -- 41, 41, 49  //  Indiantown Church -- 49, 178

and maps at p. 

p. 15:  Another circumstance which gave us much alarm was the Indians when they came to hunt in the Spring. They came in great numbers like the Egyptian locusts, but were not hurtful.

p. 71:  Long before the Scotch-Irish came to Williamsburg, the Indians had abandoned the section as a place for permanent residence. Sometimes, however, they came to fish and hunt in the swamps of Black River and the Santee. They did not like these parts during mosquito season.

Tradition says that there were three small tribes of Indians that had their headquarters within the territory now known as Williamsburg County, and there is yet some evidence visible to sustain it. It is said that the Mingoes had their camp ground in the fork made by the junction of Indiantown Swamp and Black Mingo Creek. Their burying ground on the bluff at this point has yielded many relics of the time of their occupation. The word "Mingo", in one Indian language, means black; in another, a kind of officer. Possibly, the Mingoes were Indian chiefs who spent their vacations in the Indiantown-Black Mingo country and hoped to find there after death the "happy hunting ground." The Americans who dwell in this section now will tell you that it is the favored spot on earth and give reasons from the past and present to prove their statement. . . .

It is said that these three bands of Indians, the Wee Nees, the Wee Tees, and the Mingoes, belonged to the five great nations that had their headquarters along the Great Lakes. It is believed, however, that these Indian camping grounds in Williamsburg were not places of permanent residence, but that they were occupied from time to time by hunting and fishing parties from the North and the West.








Chokloklowa recognized as a group by SC in 2005


South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs

ATTN:  Native American Affairs Division . . . . probably (State Recognition Committee)
293 Greystone Blvd
Columbia, SC 29210
803-333-9621 (office)
803-333-9627 (fax)