Traditional: On the lower Santee River in Berkeley, Charleston, and Georgetown counties, southward toward the Wando River and westward toward present-day Moncks Corner. They were northern neighbors of the Etiwan.
During the 1670s, they were possibly the first natives to meet the English settlers in Sewee Bay, now Bulls Bay. They assisted the English in fighting off the Spanish and supplied them with food.
By 1701, the Sewee had been decimated by alcohol and smallpox.
After 1715, the remaining members probably merged with the Catawba.
Dwellings – Sewee Indians
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Food – Sewee Indians
Accounts by settlers who received food from the Sewee indicated that they grew corn, probably as their staple food.
Beliefs and Practices – Sewee Indians
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Related Sewee Indian Resources
Milling, Chapman J. Red Carolinians. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1969, pp. 206-208.
Swanton, John R. The Indian Tribes of North America. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984, pp. 98-99.