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The Pee Dee tribe (also spelled Pedee and Peedee) are a nation of American Indians of the southeast United States; their population is concentrated in the Piedmont of present-day South Carolina. Four tribes claiming Pee Dee descent have been officially recognized by the state since 2005; none has federal recognition. In the 17th and 18th centuries, English colonists named the Pee Dee River and the Pee Dee region of South Carolina for the nation. The Pee Dee were part of the South Appalachian Mississippian culture that developed in the region as early as 980 CE, extending into present-day North Carolina and Tennessee. Their Town Creek Indian Mound and village site has been designated a National Historic Landmark, the only such landmark in North Carolina to commemorate an American Indian culture. Scholars are unsure of the Pee Dee language, although it was likely related to the Siouan languages, as were the languages of neighboring small tribes in the Piedmont region. ==Pre-contact history== The Pee Dee were part of the South Appalachian Mississippian culture, and part of a larger complex society known for building earthwork mounds for spiritual and political purposes. They participated in a widespread network of trading that stretched from Georgia through South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and as well as the mountain and Piedmont regions of North Carolina. Archeological research has demonstrated that the Pee Dee had developed in the region as a culture by 980 CE〔 and thrived in the Pee Dee River region of present-day North and South Carolina during the Pre-Columbian era. As an example, the Town Creek Indian Mound site in western North Carolina was occupied from about 1150—1400 CE.〔 In his 1970 work, anthropologist Charles Hudson had described the prehistoric and protohistoric ancestors of the Pee Dee as possibly a "southern chiefdom" of the southeastern Mississippian culture type. There was evidence that around 1550 A.D., some historical Pee Dee migrated from the lower Pee Dee River of the Atlantic Coastal Plain to the upper Pee Dee River of the Piedmont. Neighboring tribes in the Piedmont spoke Siouan languages, but those of the Lowcountry spoke Algonquian languages. Hudson thought the Pee Dee were concentrated in the Piedmont for about a century.〔Hudson (1970), pp. 16-17〕 Extensive archeological research for 50 years since 1937 at the Town Creek Indian Mound and village site in western North Carolina near the border with South Carolina has provided insights into their culture.〔("Town Creek Indian Mound: An American Indian Legacy" ), North Carolina Historic Sites, 2012, accessed 22 April 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pee Dee people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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