Steps: 1,757,045
Miles: 742.69
The town of Santee, SC, located on the edge of Lake Marion, was named after the small Native American tribe (est. 3000 people around 1600 AD), speaking a Siouan language and centered in the area.
Santee Burial Mound. There is very little left of the Santee in the area today - and some of what was left is now under Lake Marion.
The Isanti (who were also known as Santee or Dakota) people migrated north and westward from the south and east into Ohio then to Minnesota. In the past, they were a woodland people who thrived on hunting, fishing and subsistence farming.
Little Crow was a well-known Isanti Chief.
Migrations of hostile Chippewa people from the east, armed with muskets supplied by the French and British, pushed the Isanti further into Minnesota and west and southward, giving the name "Dakota Territory" to the northern expanse west of the Mississippi River and up to its headwaters.
Lake Marion is the largest lake in South Carolina. Lake Marion was created in the early 1940s as part of the Santee Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project. The lake is fed by many tributaries including Wyboo Creek and the Santee River, and also by numerous springs including Eutaw Springs. The Catfish was obviously well-fed too.
The lake is named for the Revolutionary War General Francis Marion, whose home, Pond Bluff, was one of those flooded when the lake was created.
2 comments:
There's a lot of Native American history we need to learn about...my area of Pennsylvania included. Great history lesson today, Iggy.
Agreed. This entry took me back to my jr high days. One of my history classes dealt with the Native Americans in New York State. Interesting stuff (not that I remember much). I do remember having to read this book that all sorts of folklore in it. One story that always stuck with me was the story of the bread. The NA told how man was like bread. The white man was underdone and doughy and the black man was over done and burnt while the NA considered themselves done "just perfectly". I wish I could remember the name of the book because I'd just love to read it again.
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