CASE #2
Chocowinity:
What's in a name?
FACT:
In 1928, the Rev. N.C.
Hughes, Jr., who had long admired and wondered about the meaning of the
name "Chocowinity" engaged in a conversation with a "well-educated
Indian" he met on the Edisto River in South Carolina. The Indian
proceeded to tell Rev. Hughes that the word "Chocowinity" meant "fish
from many waters."
The Indian, not being
from North Carolina and being unlikely to have any knowledge whatsoever
about the Tuscarora language, was probably pulling Rev. Hughes' leg
about the word meaning.
Chocowinity does
not mean "fish from many waters." It comes from the Tuscarora word for
"otter", an animal that is found in abundance in North Carolina's inland
waterways.
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News & Events
11/05/09 -
A Special "Thank You" to The
History Place in Morehead City, and the Carteret County Historical
Society
09/09/09 -
2009 Great Salt Water Educational Outreach
05/26/09 -
Read the Great Salt Water
Educational Outreach Blog
08/19/08 -
The Blair A. Rudes Indigenous Language &
Indigenous History Collection - CCIC has created a new area on
the website dedicated to the memory of our dear friend and linguistics
advisor, Dr. Blair A. Rudes. In it you will find two previously
unpublished (on CCIC) research papers by Dr. Rudes. The first is on his
Algonquian language work for the film The New World. The other is
about Spanish contact with the Tuscarora prior to 1522. From now on, all
language materials will be housed within this new Memorial section of
the site.
08/11/08 -
Case #2: Chocowinity
- What's in a name? - For decades, residents of eastern North
Carolina have been under the assumption that the name "Chocowinity"
meant "fish from many waters." CCIC's Sara Whitford discovered, on the
other hand, that the name actually means something entirely different.
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read more.
5/23/08 -
Remembering a Friend: Linda
Gurganus - A memorial tribute to a friend of CCIC, written by
CCIC founding director, Teresa Morris.
5/22/08 -
The CCIC Case Files are now
open! A new feature on this site will be investigative articles
written on various topics in coastal/eastern North Carolina Indian
history. Click here to check out
Case #1: On the Trail of
Tom, or A New Look at the Tuscarora War
3/28/08 -
Remembering a Friend: Dr. Blair A.
Rudes - On March 16th, we lost our dear friend and linguistic
advisor, Dr. Blair A. Rudes, to a heart attack.
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2/22/08 -
The Trial of Baron
Christoph von Graffenried and Surveyor General John Lawson - An
excerpt from von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern.
Details the journey made by Lawson and von Graffenried into
Tuscarora territory, including their capture, trial, and the execution
of John Lawson.
1/26/08 -
Coastal
Algonquian Vocabulary A sampling of the Coastal Algonquian
language was translated by Dr. Blair A. Rudes at the request of
Coastal Carolina Indian Center over a year ago. This brief vocabulary is
now available in our Research Databases. (Soon we'll also be adding
another vocabulary list compiled for CCIC by Scott Dawson.)
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