The Cape Fear Indians
By: Bradley Merritt, Erina
McPherson, Kellie Bass
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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.
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Languages
• Their language was
Pedee.
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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.
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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.
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Interacting with The Colonists
• Because of the death
of major tribes in
North Carolina
caused by the pirates
the Cape Fear
Indians fled South.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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....
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