The Haliwa-Saponi Indian tribe is recognized in the state of North Carolina Tribal members are direct descendents of the Saponi, Tuscarora, Tutelo and Nansemond Indians.
Sometime during the next several decades they moved south, seldom remaining stationary until the mid-eighteenth century.
John Smith found them there, in a region he broadly labeled Monacan, in 1607. The Saponi Indians were a Siouan-speaking people who lived in the Virginia Piedmont near present-day Charlottesville. On page 52, Carlson speaks of the Saponi, mentioning how in 1732, William Byrd III spoke of the Indians at Fort Fort Christanna, saying they were really a consolidation of several tribes and " each of these was formerly a distinct Nation, or rather several clans or canton's of the same Nation, speaking the same language, and using the same.The Saponi, Tutelo, Occaneechi, nad other grouped Siouan tribes had bad blood agianst their neighbors of this area which was the Tuskarora, Mehherrin, and Nottoway (the Iroqious) since the begining ( VA and NC governments knowing this is probally why the Saponi was picked for their missions).
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