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tribe, with au extensive territory embracing" large portions of several 

 present states, nothing more need be said, of these Indians here. 



Shawano. — Below the Cherokee territory on the Savannah there was 

 an important band of the Shawano, locally known as Savannah Indians, 

 of Algonqnian stock, having their principal village nearly opposite 

 Angnsta. The river takes its name from the tribe. They moved 

 northward into Pennsylvania about the year 1700. 



Uvhi. — Lower down on both sides of the Savannah were located 

 the Uchi tribe, which constituted a distinct linguistic stock (Uchean). 

 The remnant of the tribe are now incorporated with the Creek. They 

 were probably identical with the "Cofitachiqui" of De Soto's chroni- 

 clers, a tribe whose village is supposed by the best authorities to have 

 been located at the site of Silver Bluff, on the Savannah, in Barnwell 

 county. South Carolina, about 25 miles by water beloAV Augusta. 



Saluda. — The territory of the Saluda Indians is marked on Jefferys' 

 map of 1761, south of Saluda river, about the present Columbia, with 

 a statement that they had removed to Conestoga in Pennsylvania. 

 There seems to be no other original reference to this tribe. They may 

 have been identical with the Assiwikale, who removed from South Caro- 

 lina about 1700, and in 1731 were living with the Shawano partly on 

 the Susquehanna and partly on the Alleghany. 



Notchee. — The tribe called "Natchee," "Kotchees," etc., in early 

 documents, do not seem to have been native to South Carolina, but 

 were probably identical with the Natchez of Mississippi. Although 

 at first thought it might appear improbable that a tribe originally liv- 

 ing on the Mississippi could afterward have been domiciled near the 

 Savannah, it is no more impossible than that a Savannah tribe could 

 have removed to the Susquehanna or to the Ohio, as was the case with 

 the Shawano, or that a tribe on the Yadkin could have emigrated to 

 Canada, as was the case with the Tutelo. 



The Natchez, who lived originally on the eastern bank of the Mis- 

 sissippi, about the site of the present city of Natchez, became involved 

 in a war with the French in 1729 which resulted in their complete 

 destruction as a tribe in tlie following year. The remnant, disorgan- 

 ized, but still considerable in numl)ers, fled in different directions. A 

 few crossed the Mississippi and were lost in the swami)s of Louisiana; 

 many took refuge with the Chickasaw, who thus drew down on them- 

 selves the anger of tlie French. A large body fled to the Creek tribe, 

 among whom they have ever since retained a distinct existence, after- 

 ward removing with that tribe to Indian Territory. In 1799 their village 

 on Coosa river in Alabama contained several hundred souls. Others, 

 again, joined the Cherokee, and according to i)ersonal information of 

 the author they had a distinct village and language on Valley river in 

 western North Carolina about ninety years ago. As the Creek and Cher- 

 okee both bordered on Carolina, while the Chickasaw were in alliance 

 with that government as against the French, it is easy to see how 



