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Title: History of the old Cheraws:
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Gregg, Alexander, 1819-1893
Subjects: Cheraw Indians
Publisher: New York, Richardson and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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perchance by somedismemberment of their nation, and the removal of many,of which no record or tradition remains—continued to bethe dominant race on the Pedee ; the others having everbeen reckoned among the smaller and inferior tribes. Oftheir origin nothing is known beyond the conjectures ofethnologists. They have been assigned, but upon whatgrounds does not appear, to the extensive family of Algon-kins. These occupied that portion of North America onthe east extending from 35° to 60° N. latitude, and reachingalong the northern line of extension almost to the Pacificon the west. Beyond this, as the track of aboriginal descentand migration begins to be traced back, even conjecture islost in a sea of uncertainty. The tribes on the Pedee continued in their feeble anddisconnected state (the Cheraws maintaining the supremacy)until the arrival of the Catawbas from the north, with the * See map annexed, by the late Albert Gallatin, vol. i. of Transactions ofAmerican Ethnological Society.
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WITH SURROUNDING TRIBES,TAKEN FROM )NL\P IN VOL. I, Traiisaclioiis ol AmericanElluiolt)piciLl Socielv. HISTORY OF THE OLD CHERAWS. 3 history of whom their own was ever after to be inseparably-blended. According to their tradition,^ as it has been handeddown to very recent times, the Catawbas, at a period prioror not long subsequent to the discovery and settlement ofNorth America by the whites, occupied a region far to thenorthward, from whence, in course of time, they removedto the south. Being a numerous and warlike race, theyvanquished the tribes with whom they came successively inconflict on the way, until they met the Cherokees on thebanks of the river, afterwards called by their own name,Catawba. Here, as the tradition relates, a sanguinary battle ensuedbetween them, which lasted from morning until night,darkness alone serving to put an end to the conflict. Theloss on both sides was heavy, though neither party gainedthe victory. They slept on the field of blood among theirdead an

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