North Carolina's Eight Tribes
The legacy of the Native Americans of North Carolina is the eight state-recognized tribes that remain (Commission of Indian Affairs, 2014). These tribes all have their own histories to understand that have gotten them to their present states. They also face and have faced their own issues over the years. The remaining tribes include: the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation, the Lumbee Indians, the Coharie, the Haliwa-Saponi, the Meherrin, the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, the Sappony, and the Waccamaw-Siouan. These tribes belong to three different language groups, which they are normally grouped by: the Iroquoian speaking, Siouan speaking, and Algonquian speaking. The Iroquoian speaking tribes include the Cherokee and some of the ancestors of the Lumbees, such as the remaining Tuscarora (Walbert, 2010). The Siouan tribes include the remaining Lumbee, Occaneechi, Haliwa-Saponi and Waccamaw-Siouan. The remaining tribes, the Meherrin and the Sappony are Siouan and Algonquian (Walbert, 2010).
Tribes' websites are linked below where you can find out more about them and read about different events they hold in their communities: