Saponi Tribe

Saponi of North Carolina

The term Saponi or Sappony has been applied to three contemporary groups of people in North Carolina:

• The Sappony, formerly known as the Indians of Person County, formally recognized by the State of North Carolina in 1911.
• The Haliwa-Saponi, primarily based in Halifax County and formally recognized by the State of North Carolina in 1965.
• The Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation was formally recognized by the State of North Carolina after a court battle which ended in 2001.

Printed Materials

• Mooney, James, The Siouan Tribes of the East (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology), Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894. (Google Books link)
• Rights, Douglas L., The American Indian in North Carolina, 1988. (Google Books link)

Websites

• Gap Analysis of the Flower Swift Study
• Haliwa-Saponi (Wikipedia)
• Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe of North Carolina ("under construction")
• Haliwa-Saponi Presence on Web (newspaper article)
• Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation
• Saponi (Wikipedia)
• Saponi Descendants Association
• Saponi Indian Tribe History (Access Genealogy)
• The Saponi Indians (Carolina - The Native Americans)
• Saponi Nation of Missouri, Mahenips Band
• Saponi Nation of Ohio
• The Sappony (Person County North Carolina Genealogy)
• Searching for Saponitown
• Tutelo/Saponi Indian Language

See also

• Indians of North Carolina
• Melungeons