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A Carolina explorer saw Occaneechee Indians murder their Richohockan guests
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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Whether these latter Indians [Yuchi/Cherokee of the James Falls fight in Virginia 1656] were Rickohockans or not, there were Rickohockans still in the north. In 1670, during his second expedition into the province of Carolina, Lederer was informed by several Indians "that the nation of Rickohockans, who dwell not far to the westward of the Apalataean Mountains, are seated upon a land, as they term it, of great waves," from which Lederer infers that they meant the seashore.1 It is more likely, as Mooney suggests, that they had reference to the mountains.2 A tragedy of which Rickohockans were the victims was witnessed by Lederer at the town of Occaneechee. He says: "The next day after my arrival at Akenatzy, a Rickohockan ambassadour, attended by five Indians, whose faces were coloured with auripigmentum (in which mineral these parts do much abound), was received and that night invited to a ball of their fashion; but in the height of their mirth and dancing, by a smoke contrived for that purpose, the room was suddenly darkened and, for what cause I know not, the Rickohockan and his retinue barbarously murthered."3 AN176 (Swanton)
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