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The Waccamaw Siouan Indians are one of eight state-recognized tribes in North Carolina. Also known as the Waccamaw Siouan Indian Tribe , they are not federally recognized . [ 4 ] They are headquartered in Bolton, North Carolina , [ 1 ] in Columbus County , and also have members in Bladen County in southeastern North Carolina.
Siouan (/ ˈ s uː ən / SOO-ən) or Siouan–Catawban is a language family of North America that is located primarily in the Great Plains, Ohio and Mississippi valleys and southeastern North America with a few other languages in the east.
In the summer of 2016, Sioux Indians and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe began a protest against construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, also known as the Bakken pipeline, which, if completed, is designed to carry hydrofracked crude oil from the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota to the oil storage and transfer hub of Patoka, Illinois. [115]
The Western Siouan languages, also called Siouan proper or simply Siouan, [1] are a large language family native to North America. They are closely related to the Catawban languages , sometimes called Eastern Siouan, and together with them constitute the Siouan (Siouan–Catawban) language family.
Lumbee Legal Services, Inc., represents the Waccamaw Siouan Tribe in its administrative process for seeking federal recognition. [15] [16] [17] In 2005 South Carolina recognized the Waccamaw Indian People, [18] a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Conway, South Carolina. [19] [20] with an office in Aynor, South Carolina.
In 2019, a group of eager tribal members approached the Waccamaw Siouan leaders, proposing the start of a STEM education initiative in the tribal community called STEM Studio. The most recent ...
The Cheraw people, also known as the Saraw or Saura, [2] were a Siouan-speaking tribe of Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, [3] [2] in the Piedmont area of North Carolina near the Sauratown Mountains, east of Pilot Mountain and north of the Yadkin River. They lived in villages near the Catawba River. [4]
The Rosebud, Cheyenne River, Lower Brule and Yankton Sioux tribes also receive state CPS services. Sisseton Wahpeton College in Agency Village on the Lake Traverse Reservation, in northeast South ...