Pedee people
The Pedee people, also Pee Dee and Peedee, were a historic Native American tribe of the Southeastern United States. Historically, their population has been concentrated in the Piedmont of present-day South Carolina. It is believed that in the 17th and 18th centuries, English colonists named the Pee Dee River and the Pee Dee region of South Carolina for the tribe. Today four state-recognized tribes, one state-recognized group, and several unrecognized groups claim descent from the historic Pedee people. Presently none of these organizations are recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, with the Catawba Indian Nation being the only federally recognized tribe within South Carolina.
Town Creek Mound, a precontact Pee Dee culture site in North Carolina | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Estimated 600 in 1600 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| USA South Carolina | |
| Languages | |
| Unknown likely Siouan, possibly Catawban | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Catawba |
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