Featured Papers

Alexander Jr, Ralph W., and George K. Neumann. "On the Origin of the Tutelo—An Eastern Siouan Tribe." Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science. Vol. 78. 1968.
Caldwell, John Alexander., Newton, J. H.. History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio: And Incidentally Historical Collections Pertaining to Border Warfare and the Early Settlement of the Adjacent Portion of the Ohio Valley. United States: Historical Publishing Company, 1880.
Dixon, Heriberto. "A Saponi by any other name is still a Siouan." American Indian culture and research journal 26.3 (2002): 65-83.
Emrick, Isaac J. "Maopewa iati bi: Takai Tonqyayun Monyton" To abandon so beautiful a Dwelling": Indians in the Kanawha-New River Valley, 1500-1755." (2015).
Emrick, Isaac J. The Monyton diaspora: A history of the middle Ohio River Valley, 1640–1700. West Virginia University, 2005.
Griffin, James B. "On the Historic Location of the Tutelo and the Mohetan in the Ohio Valley." American Anthropologist 44.2 (1942): 275-280.
Lederer, John, and Sir William Talbot. The Discoveries of John Lederer in Three Several Marches from Virginia to the West of Carolina and Other Parts of the Continent: Begun in March, 1669 and Ended in September, 1670: Together with a General Map of the Whole Territory which He Traversed. JC (1902).
Miller, Carl F. "Revaluation of the Eastern Siouan problem, with particular emphasis on the Virginia branches-the Occaneechi, the Saponi, and the Tutelo." Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin (1957).
Rankin, Robert L. "Siouan Tribes of the Ohio Valley:" Where did all those Indians come from?"." (2007).
Swanton, John R. "Siouan tribes and the Ohio Valley." American Anthropologist 45.1 (1943): 49-66.

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Early Contact & Pre-1900 Journals & Treaties

Bland, Edward. "The Discovery of New Brittaine, 1650." Narratives of Early Carolina (1650-1708).
Brickell, John. The Natural History of North-Carolina: With an Account of the Trade, Manners, and Customs of the Christian and Indian Inhabitants. Illustrated with Copper-plates, Whereon are Curiously Engraved the Map of the Country, Several Strange Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Snakes, Insects, Trees, and Plants, &c. James Carson. For the author, 1737.
Byrd, William. The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina (1733).
Caldwell, John Alexander., Newton, J. H.. History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio: And Incidentally Historical Collections Pertaining to Border Warfare and the Early Settlement of the Adjacent Portion of the Ohio Valley. United States: Historical Publishing Company, 1880.
Lawson, John. "A new voyage to Carolina: containing the exact description and natural history of that country; together with the present state thereof; and a journal of a thousand miles, travel’d thro’several nations of Indians; giving a particular account of their customs, manners, etc." (1709).
Lederer, John, and Sir William Talbot. The Discoveries of John Lederer in Three Several Marches from Virginia to the West of Carolina and Other Parts of the Continent: Begun in March, 1669 and Ended in September, 1670: Together with a General Map of the Whole Territory which He Traversed. JC (1902).

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MID-Century Anthropological Studies

Alexander Jr, Ralph W., and George K. Neumann. "On the Origin of the Tutelo—An Eastern Siouan Tribe." Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science. Vol. 78. 1968.
Gilbert, William Harlen. Surviving Indian groups of the eastern United States. US Government Printing Office, 1948.
Griffin, James B. "On the Historic Location of the Tutelo and the Mohetan in the Ohio Valley." American Anthropologist 44.2 (1942): 275-280.
Miller, Carl F. "Revaluation of the Eastern Siouan problem, with particular emphasis on the Virginia branches-the Occaneechi, the Saponi, and the Tutelo." Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin (1957).
Swanton, John R. "Siouan tribes and the Ohio Valley." American Anthropologist 45.1 (1943): 49-66.
Swanton, John Reed. The Indian Tribes of North America. No. 145.

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Contemporary (1980 - present) Resources & Papers

Bird, B., Wilson, J., Gilhooly III, W. et al. Midcontinental Native American population dynamics and late Holocene hydroclimate extremes. Sci Rep 7, 41628 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep41628
Calcaterra, Angela. "Locating American Indians along William Byrd II's Dividing Line." Early American Literature 46.2 (2011): 233-261.
Caldwell, John Alexander., Newton, J. H.. History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio: And Incidentally Historical Collections Pertaining to Border Warfare and the Early Settlement of the Adjacent Portion of the Ohio Valley. United States: Historical Publishing Company, 1880.
Carlson, R. A. J. "" Who's your people?": Cumulative identity among the Salyersville Indian population of Kentucky's Appalachia and the midwest muckfields, 1677--2000."
Cook, Robert A. Continuity and change in the native American Village: Multicultural origins and descendants of the fort ancient culture. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Davis Jr, RP Stephen, and H. Trawick Ward. "The evolution of Siouan communities in piedmont North Carolina." Southeastern Archaeology (1991): 40-53.
Dixon, Heriberto. "A Saponi by any other name is still a Siouan." American Indian culture and research journal 26.3 (2002): 65-83.
Driscoll, Elizabeth Monahan, RP Stephen Davis Jr, and H. Trawick Ward. "Piedmont Siouans and Mortuary Archaeology on the Eno River, North Carolina." Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States (2001): 127.
Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, and Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall, eds. Mapping the Mississippian shatter zone: the Colonial Indian slave trade and regional instability in the American South. U of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Emrick, Isaac J. "Maopewa iati bi: Takai Tonqyayun Monyton" To abandon so beautiful a Dwelling": Indians in the Kanawha-New River Valley, 1500-1755." (2015).
Emrick, Isaac J. The Monyton diaspora: A history of the middle Ohio River Valley, 1640–1700. West Virginia University, 2005.
Gamble, Stephanie. "A Community of Convenience: The Saponi Nation, Governor Spotswood, and the Experiment at Fort Christanna, 1670-1740." Native South 6.1 (2013): 70-109. 25. 25)
Hazel, Forest. "Occaneechi-Saponi Descendants in the North Carolina Piedmont: The Texas Community," Southern Indian Studies 40 (1991): 2-29.
Hazel, Forest. "Black, White &'Other': The Struggle for Recognition." Indians of the South.' A Native American Resource Packet (1985): 26-29.
Kaufman, David. 2019. Clues to lower Mississippi Valley histories. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Kessler, John S., and Donald B. Ball. North from the mountains: A folk history of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio. Vol. 2. Mercer University Press, 2001.
Rankin, Robert L. "Siouan Tribes of the Ohio Valley:" Where did all those Indians come from?"." (2007).
Richardson, Marvin. "Racial Choices: The Emergence of the Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe, 1835-1971." (2016). 56. 56)
Smith, Marvin T.. The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760. Ukraine, University Press of Mississippi, (2002).
Wood, Karenne. "The language ghost”: Linguistic heritage and collective identity among the Monacan Indians of central Virginia." PhD, diss., University of Virginia, Department of Anthropology (2016).

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Saponi Nation of Ohio

Saponi Nation of Ohio

Featured Papers

Early Contact & Pre-1900 Journals & Treaties

MID-Century Anthropological Studies

Contemporary (1980 - present) Resources & Papers

Contemporary Projects & presentations

Saponi Nation of Ohio

Saponi Nation of Ohio

Featured Papers

Early Contact & Pre-1900 Journals & Treaties

MID-Century Anthropological Studies

Contemporary (1980 - present) Resources & Papers

Contemporary Projects & presentations

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