Who Where The Native Peoples of South Carolina?
SOUTH CAROLINA - South Carolina has a rich and complex Indigenous history, with an estimated twenty-nine different Native American nations inhabiting the land for thousands of years before European contact. These groups came from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, primarily clustered into five major language families: Siouan, Iroquoian, Muskogean, Algonquian, and Yuchi/Uchean.