Yuchi

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arts

  • Aztec round dance
    In Native American dance: Northeast and Southeast Indians

    The Creek, Yuchi, Seminole, and other tribes of the southeastern United States greatly emphasize the summer green corn harvest ceremony, or Busk. Before the removal of many of those tribes to reservations in Oklahoma, they acquired a few dances outside their own traditions. They carried the stomp…

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South Carolina

  • McCormick, South Carolina
    In McCormick

    Yuchi Indians lived in the area in the 17th century; Indian raids by the Yuchi and others throughout the mid-18th century slowed European settlement. Gold mining and cotton growing were important in the 19th century, but in time the gold was exhausted, and—because of erosion,…

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