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| The High Plains Community Sappony Tribal Site | The North Carolina-Virginia border line runs through the heart of a close-knit Indian community known as the High Plains Sappony. The area is part of the southeastern section of Halifax County, Virginia and the northeastern section of Person County, North Carolina. Between 1911 and 1913, both states officially recognized the Indians living in this Settlement. This website promotes their history and culture. | ||
| Searching for Saponi Town -- Eastern Siouan, Eastern Blackfoot Descendants | This site is for those seeking to research Native American ancestry deriving from the Piedmont of Virginia and North Carolina. These are Siouan people, commonly referred to generically as the Saponi, Tutelo. Occoneechee, Eno, Cheraw. | ||
| Searching for the Lost Colony DNA Blog: Saponi Commentary on Tribal Recognition | The current government and tribal systems in place for Federal recognition of Native American tribes is inadequate, illogical, and destructive. The policies practiced, both in the past and present, destroy Native American Indian communities and families via blood quantification, tribal sovereignty, and paradoxical definitions. These actions cleave Native communities and families creating rifts that can last generations. The Saponi, along with other Southeastern Siouan tribes, are good examples of denial to recognize based on erroneous and fallacious government policies. Colonial, state, and federal documents can clearly show proof and evidence of the valid claims of these tribes and descendents. Instead of trying to understand the historical context of survival within these communities; the government suppresses context in favor of dogmatic criteria. This criterion has its basis in the Allotment Act and the Indian Reorganization Act, both utilizing as their basis, forced enrollments and round-ups during the removal period. They do not take into account the tribes that were scattered into the country prior to the Revolution, colonial treaties, Citizen Indians; the federal governments’ success at assimilation, those who escaped the Trail of Tears, and the systematic paper genocide that became policy for smaller scattered tribes in the Southeast. | ||
| Person Co, NC - Sappony | The Sappony Tribe (formerly known as the Indians of Person County, NC) have been officially recognized as a tribe by the State of NC. The Sappony have resided for centuries in what became known as the High Plains Community, which straddles the North Carolina-Virginia border now separating northeastern Person County and southeastern Halifax County, Va. The Sappony represent the remnants of a much larger tribe, the majority of which moved north to join the Iroquois or south to join the Catawba, according to tribe leaders. This webpage provides background information for those researching their Sappony roots in Person Co. | ||
| Siouan Languages | The Siouan languages are the second largest indigenous language family in North America. Some authors use the term Siouan to refer to the Siouan-Catawban family, a close cousin. Included in the Siouan Language Groups are the following: Assiniboine, Biloxi, Chiwere, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Hocák (Winnibago), Kanza, Lakota, Mandan, Moniton, Occaneechi, Ofo, Omaha, Osage, Ponca, Quapaw, Saponi, Sioux, Stoney, & Tutelo. |
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