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Santee Indian Organization
The Santee Indian Organization or Santee Indian Tribe is a state-recognized tribe and nonprofit organization headquartered in Holly Hill, South Carolina. The state of South Carolina awarded the organization the state-recognized tribe designation under the SC Code Section 1-31-40 (A) (7)(10), Statutory Authority Chapter 139 (100–110) on January 27, 2006. Since having obtained state-recognition the tribe remains federally unrecognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Members of the Santee Indian Organization are descendants of the White Oak Indian Community, a historically documented isolated multi-tribal population of indigenous people located in eastern Orangeburg County, South Carolina. The tribe predominantly identifies its lineage from the historic Santee (South Carolina), Santee and Pedee people of South Carolina, with some members also claiming Cherokee heritage in addition to connections to other South Carolina Lowcountry, Lowcountry tribes due to recent intermarriages. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santee (South Carolina)
The Santee were a historic tribe of Native Americans that once lived in South Carolina within the counties of Clarendon and Orangeburg, along the Santee River. The Santee were a small tribe even during the early eighteenth century and were primarily centered in the area of the present-day town of Santee, South Carolina. Their settlement along the Santee River has since been dammed and is now called Lake Marion. The Santee Indian Organization, a state-recognized tribe within South Carolina claim descent from the historic Santee people but are not presently federally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Etymology While few words of the Santee language have been preserved, scholars like John R. Swanton, have historically maintained that there is little doubt that the tribe once spoke a Siouan-Catawban language. Frank Speck, a prominent anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania during the early twentieth century, suggested that the name Santee der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |