53 SIOUAN TRIBES OF THE EAST. [ 



BTJREAa Oli- 

 ETHNOLOGY 



are still in existence (they are not with the Six Nations in Canada), 

 they must be with the Cayuga still on a reservation in the state of New 

 York. 



THE SARA AND KEYAUWEE. 



Si/notijjmy. 



C/irt)wA-s.— Document of 1726 in N. Y. Col. Docs., 1855, vol. v, p. 793. 



Charali. — Adair, Hist. Am. Iiids., 1775, p. 224. 



Charraws. — Glen (1751) in Gregg, Old Clieraws, 18(57, p. 14. 



Charroivs. — Gregg, ibid., p. 1. « 



Chftwraiv. — Smyth, Tour in the. United States, 1784, vol. i, p. 207. 



Cheraw. — Sontli Carolina Gazette (1739) in Gregg, Old Cheraws, p. 9. 



Chouala. — Do I'lslo map. 



Cliovala. — Shipp, De Soto and Florida, 1881, p. SGt! (niisiiriut). 



Sara. — Lederer, Discoveri«s, 1672, p. 2. 



Saraiis. — Maji of 1715 in Winsor, History of America, 1887, vol. v, p. 346. 



/Saraics. ^Virginia Council (1716) in Col. Records of N. C, 1886, vol ii, p 247. 



Sarrairs. — Docnment of 1715 in ibid., p. 251. 



Sasa. — Lederer, Discoveries, 1672, p. 2 (form in Warrennuncock dialect). 



Saura. — Vaugondy map, Partie de I'Amdriqne Septeutrionale, 1755, 



Sanro.—Tyjrd (1733), Hist. Dividing Line, 1866, vol. ii, p. 20. 



Sairara. — Gallatin in Trans, and Colls. Am. Antici. Soc, 1836, vol. ii, p. 86. 



Sawras. — Docnment of 1716 in Col. Records of N. C, vol. ii, p. 246. 



Sawraiv. — N. C. Records, vol. ii, Docnment of 1716; ibid, p. 243. 



Sharcnvas.—^ote in N. Y. Col. Docs., 1855, vol. v, p. 793. 



Suala. — Lederer, Discoveries, 1672, p. 2 (Spauisli form). 



Siiali. — Ani-Snali. — Mooney (Cherokee singular and plural forms) 



Si(ali/. — Lederer, Discoveries, 1672, p. 2 (Warrennuncock form). 



Sirali. — Mooney (Cherokee form). 



XMa7r(.~Garcilaso (1540) in La Florida del Tnca, 1723, p. 135. 



Xualla. — Elvas (1540) quoted in Shipp, De Soto and Florida, 1881, p. 366. note. 



Keawe. — Jefiferys, French Dominions iu America, 1761, pt. i, map. 



Keawee. — Bowen, Map of the British American Plantations, 1760. 



Eeeawaives. — Document of 1716 iu Col. Records of N. C, 1886, .p. 242. 



Keeowaws. — H)id., p. 243. 



Keeow^e. — Vaugondy map, Partie de I'Amerique Septeutrionale, 1755. 



Kciauwees. — Lawson (1714), Hist, of Carolina, reprint 1860, p. 384. 



Keomee. — MolFs map of Carolina, 1720 (misprint). 



Kewawees. — Byi'd (1733), History of the Dividing Line, 1866, vol. ii, p. 20. 



Keyaiiwees. — Lawson (1714), Hist, of Carolina., reprint 1860, p. 83. 



Eeymvees. — Brickeli, Natural History of North Carolina, 1737, p. 343. 



THE SARA AND THEIR ALLIES. 



While we know nothing positively as to the linguistic affinity of the 

 Sara, all the evidence goes to show that, like most of the tribes of the 

 central region of Virginia and Carolina, they were of Siouan stock. Their 

 name is probably from the Catawba word sara, signifying a place of 

 "tall grass or weeds" (Gatschet). While the Siouan tribes treated in 

 the foregoing consolidated, after their d.ecline, and joined the Iroquois 

 in the north, most of the remaining people of that stock, including the 



