Is anyone familiar with a old tribe from SC and/or NC named Washitaw? I was told by one that says she is of that tribe and they were "Carbon dated"???????? She also told me that they were included in some kind of UNITED NATIONS Human Rights declaration and was ratified in 2008?????? I have no idea what this means with the UN and native blood! Strange to me. TT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy White" <jwhite@loganet.net> To: <creek-southeast@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] Westo Indians > You might want to try this page for some additional reading on the Westo > Indians, > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/migration/allophylic_languages.htm > > This page on the Yuch also contains Westo history > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/uchean/yuchihist.htm > > Judy > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:23 PM, <TalliyaSoutheast@aol.com> wrote: > >> The Westo Indians were associated with massive slave raids into the >> Carolinas and Georgia during the late 1600s. They were armed by the >> Colony >> of >> Virginia and sold their slaves to Virginia and Charleston Slave markets. >> Initially, South Carolina planters did business with them also, but >> began >> to >> fear them after they settled on the Savannah River near modern day >> Augusta. >> A combined army of Shawnee (Savano) Indians and Carolina militia gave >> them a thrashing around 1680. I have French map that shows a Westo >> village in >> Georgia, southeast of modern day Macon around 1730. >> >> The Westo name probably was derived from the Hitchiti-Creek term wes-te, >> which means "people with long, unkempt hair." Virginia historians feel >> that >> the Westos were a band of Rickohocken Indians, since it is a documented >> fact that the Colony of Virginia had a long term contract with the >> Rickohockens to obtain Native American slaves from the Lower Southeast. >> >> Richard T. >> Notes on the Creek Indians >> http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creeknotes/index.htm >> >> Early Creek History >> http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/early-history/ >> >> Migration Legend of the Creek Indians >> http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/migration/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CREEK-SOUTHEAST-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > -- > Native American Genealogy http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/ > AccessGenealogy http://www.accessgenealogy.com/ > Notes on the Creek Indians > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creeknotes/index.htm > > Early Creek History > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/early-history/ > > Migration Legend of the Creek Indians > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/migration/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CREEK-SOUTHEAST-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message