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The area surrounding Greeleyville was once home to several Native American tribes, including the Wee Nee, Wee Tee, and Mingoes, who inhabited and utilized the region as hunting grounds into the eighteenth century.[1] A remnant population of Native Americans, known as the Goins Indian Community, has lived just north of Greeleyville since the mid-nineteenth century.[2][3] The community once maintained it's own church and during the era of racial segregation, had a state-funded school which operated until 1949.[4] The community today alleges to be descended from the Wee Nee, among other historic tribes of the Carolinas.[5]
- ^ Bierer, Bert W. (1972). South Carolina Indian Lore. Columbia, S.C.: The State Printing Company. pp. 8–9, 13–14.
- ^ Paredes, J. Anthony (1992). Indians of the Southeastern United States in the Late 20th Century. Tuscaloosa, AL.: The University of Alabama Press. p. 75-77.
- ^ Hicks, Theresa M. (1998). South Carolina Indians, Indian Traders, and Other Ethnic Connections (1st ed.). Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company. p. 263.
- ^ Goins, William Moreau (2008). SC Native Pathways: A Visitor's & Resource Guide to American Indian Heritage & Historic Sites in South Carolina. Columbia, S.C.: Phoenix Publishers. p. 40.
- ^ Goulding, Shelbie. "Greeleyville Band of Black River Indians regroups with plans to place grave markers in Sumter". The Sumter Item. Retrieved 31 December 2022.