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WAOCAMAW 



The name of this tribe possibly occurs in a list of "provinces" fur- 

 nished by Francisco of Chicora in 1521 in the form "Guacaya." Wlien 

 the English established themselves in South Carolina in 1670, the 

 Waccamaw were living along the river which bears their name and on 

 the lower course of the Pee Dee, in close association with the Winyaw 

 and Pedee tribes. They were somewhat remote from the white settle- 

 ments, and did not play much of a part in the history of the province 

 until the Yamasee War broke out. They joined the hostiles, but during 

 the same year, as we learn from the South Carolina archives, "the Wac- 

 camaws and other nations bordering on the sea . . . made peace with 

 us fearing the Cherakees." In 1717 this tribe had moved south of 

 Black River and an alliance was feared between them and the Cheraw, 

 who were the trouble-making tribe at the time. In fact, when they 

 made peace in 1715, the Waccamaw admitted that the Cheraw had been 

 supplying them with ammunition. In a letter dated June 24, 1720, we 

 read : 



We had a small war with the Vocames (Waccamaw), a nation on Winea River 

 not above 100 men, but the gentlemen have paid for it for there is 60 men, women, 

 and children of them taken and killed and we have not lost one white man, only 

 a Winea Indian killed and now they petition for peace which will be granted them. 



In 1755 Cherokee and Natchez were reported to have killed some 

 Pedee and Waccamaw Indians in the white settlements. The descend- 

 ants of those who were left may have joined the Catawba, though it is 

 perhaps more likely that they are to be found among the Lumber 

 River Indians whose honies are a little farther north. (See Woccon.) 



Waccamctfm population. — The census taken in 1715, just before the 

 Yamasee War, reported 6 villages and a population of 610. As noted 

 above, they are supposed to have had 100 warriors, perhaps 350 souls, 

 in 1720, and 60 of the Waccamaw population were killed or captured — 

 and presumably sent to the West Indies — the same year. 



WAKOKAI 



A Muskogee settlement and subdivision living in Benjamin Haw- 

 kins' time (1799) on Hatchet Creek, an eastern affluent of the Coosa. 

 The earliest maps on which they appear show them in the same re- 

 gion. Their history is connected traditionally with that of the Hilibi 

 and Eufaula Indians, from whom they perhaps separated. Tukpafka 

 and Wiogufki were early and important branches of this tribe, and 

 Sakapadai was probably a third, though this is uncertain. There was 

 another Tukpafka, an Okfuskee town which later adopted the name 

 Nuyaka. After the removal, most of these Indians settled in the ex- 

 treme southwestern part of the Creek territory, where one busk ground, 

 called Wiogufki, was kept up until very late times. 



