Occaneechi people

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The Occaneechi people are a Siouan-speaking Indigenous group historically based in the Piedmont region of what is now North Carolina and Virginia, known for their role as traders and cultural intermediaries in the 17th century.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Occaneechi people canonical 4
Neuse Indians 1
Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
Native American tribe
Siouan-speaking people
activePeriod 17th century
causeOfDemographicChange displacement
epidemic diseases
warfare
conflictInvolved Bacon's Rebellion
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalPractice agriculture
fishing
hunting
trade diplomacy
culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
Southeastern Woodlands
demographicChange population decline after European contact
descendantCommunity Occaneechi people self-linksurface differs
surface form: Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation
engagedIn deerskin trade
fur trade
long-distance trade
ethnicGroup Siouan languages
surface form: Siouan
historicalRegion North Carolina
Virginia
historicalRole brokers between Europeans and interior tribes
middlemen in colonial trade networks
interactedWith English colonists
Virginia colonists
other Indigenous peoples of the Southeast
languageFamily Siouan languages
modernLocation Alamance County, North Carolina
Orange County, North Carolina
notableEvent Bacon's Rebellion
partOf Eastern Siouan peoples
recognizedBy North Carolina
surface form: State of North Carolina
region Piedmont (United States)
surface form: Piedmont
relatedEthnicGroup Catawba Indian Nation
surface form: Catawba people

Monacan people
Saponi people
Tutelo people
religion traditional Indigenous religions
role cultural intermediaries
traders
timeOfNotableEvent 1676
traditionalSubsistence bean cultivation
maize cultivation
squash cultivation

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Eno River historicallyInhabitedBy Occaneechi people
Eno people neighboringGroups Occaneechi people
Eno people relatedEthnicGroup Occaneechi people
Occaneechi people descendantCommunity Occaneechi people self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation
Haw River namedAfter Occaneechi people
this entity surface form: Sissipahaw people
Oconee River namedAfter Occaneechi people
this entity surface form: Oconee people
Neusiok (Neuse) Native American people hasNameVariant Occaneechi people
subject surface form: Neusiok
this entity surface form: Neuse Indians
Tutelo people relatedEthnicGroup Occaneechi people