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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians abstract "The Wassamassaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians, is a small state recognized tribe of Native Americans descended from historic tribes of the Colonial Era. Located in Berkeley County in the Low Country, in 2005 the people were granted recognition as an Indian group by the State of South Carolina, the first stage in recognition as a tribe. The tribe is headquartered in Berkeley County, South Carolina.The tribe is one of six that were recognized in the early 21st century by South Carolina, including the Waccamaw-Siouan Tribe, the Chaloklowa Chickasaw, some Pee Dee bands, and a composite group known as "The Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois, and United Tribes." The Catawba Indian Nation is the only one in South Carolina that is federally recognized by the U.S. Government.Wassamassaw was a swamp located between Summerville and Moncks Corner, South Carolina in the area of Varnertown, where the tribe of that name has lived. Like other tribes in the area, the Wassamassaw ended their name with "aw" or "o" to refer to their connection with coastal water. The name may have meant "connecting water", and it is one of only a few place names in the United States that is a palindrome.The tribe's current population is 1,500. In South Carolina 27,000 people self-identify as Native American. To be recognized by the state, the Wassamassaw had to show that they had lived as a community for at least a century. Records from the 19th century showed that "Indian Mary", an Edisto recognized as an Indian in her court challenge of taxes required of free people of color, married a Varnertown resident. As the reporter Bo Petersen has noted, the Wassamassaw may be "the last living link to the Edisto", a people who are extinct as an organized tribe.The Wassamassaw are descended from the Catawba, Edisto (a subtribe of the Cusabo) and Cherokee, as well as European American and African American ancestors. Under pressure from white settlement, and population losses due to infectious diseases and the Yemassee War of the 18th century, surviving members of the various tribes intermarried with each other. Soon few of the smaller groups of people identified with just one tribe. They called themselves Wassammassaw and over the decades intermarried with neighbors of other ethnicities. In the 1930s, Filipino immigrants also intermarried with members of the tribe.In 1938, the WPA photographer Marion Post Wolcott took a photo of Geneva Varner Clark of Varnertown, the only area resident who at the time identified as Native American, and her three children. Theirs is the only photo of Lowcountry Indians in the Library of Congress. Its caption is "Indian (mixed breed -- 'brass ankles') family near Summerville, South Carolina."She stands, her arms wrapped around her [holding a dog] in the cold, with three children and [another] dog in the [swept] dirt and rocks in front of a [hard] pine-board house with [lace curtains at the windows,] a roof of [somewhat] tattered wooden shingles and thin stick porch columns that lean [ever so sightly] in on each other holding it up. All appear to be well fed and warmly dressed including the mother with a fur collared full length wool coat. The Wassamassaw lost touch with their crafts and culture, but since the 1960s have been working to revive and preserve them. The effects of the civil rights movement and the Indian rights movement led some of the younger members to recover their heritage, and descendants increasingly identify as Wassamassaw. Since the late twentieth century, the Tribal Administrator, Lisa Leach, led the effort toward state recognition.Among the benefits of state recognition is that the Wassamassaw can sell art and craft work as identified "Native American"; their goal is to raise money to construct a tribal center.".
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians language Siouan_languages.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians populationPlace South_Carolina.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians religion Christianity.
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageOutDegree "87".
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageRevisionID "668213297".
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Barn_raising.
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Cape_Fear_Indians.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Catawba_(tribe).
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Category:Multiracial_affairs_in_the_United_States.
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Immunity_(medical).
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Waccamaw.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Library_of_Congress.
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Lumber_River.
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Marion_Post_Wolcott.
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Mulatto.
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Native_Americans_in_the_United_States.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink North_Carolina.
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Pee_Dee_(tribe).
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Red_Power_movement.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Robeson_County,_NC.
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Siouan.
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States.
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Summerville,_South_Carolina.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Swamp.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Tobacco.
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- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Waccamaw-Siouan_Tribe.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Waccamaw_River.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Waccamaw_Siouan.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink White_people.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Whites.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Winyah_Bay.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Works_Progress_Administration.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Yamasee.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Yamasee_War.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLink Yamassee_War.
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians wikiPageWikiLinkText "Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians".
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians group "Wassamasaw Tribe".
- Wassamasaw_Tribe_of_Varnertown_Indians group "of Varnertown Indians".