Mutanen Chesapeake

Mutanen Chesapeake

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Tarayyar Amurka

Mutanen Chesapeake

Chesepian ko Chesapeake ƙabilar ce 'yan asalin ƙasar Amirka waɗanda ke zaune kusa da hanyoyin Kudancin Hampton na yanzu a jihar Virginia ta Amurka. Sun mamaye wani yanki wanda yanzu shine Norfolk County ko Princess Anne County . [1]

Sunan

Sunan Chesapeake shine anglicization na kalmar Algonquian, K'che-sepi-ack, wanda ke fassara a matsayin "ƙasa a kan babban kogi. " [1] A shekara ta 1585, masu mulkin mallaka na Ingila sun rubuta sunansu a matsayin Ehesepiooc . [1] An rubuta sunansu hanyoyi daban-daban kuma an jera su a matsayin Chesapians.[1]

Gidaje

Babban ƙauyen Chesepian yana kan Kogin Lynnhaven a cikin Gimbiya Anne County .

Sauran garuruwa biyu na Chesepian sune Apasus da Chesepioc, duka biyu kusa da Chesapeake Bay a cikin abin da ke yanzu birni mai zaman kansa na Virginia Beach. Chesepioc yana kusa da Great Neck Point . Masu binciken tarihi da sauransu sun sami manyan kibiyoyi na 'yan asalin Amurka da yawa, gatari na dutse, tukwane, da beads a cikin Great Neck Point. Akwai kuma jana'iza da yawa na 'yan asalin ƙasar.

Harshe da haɗin kai

Kodayake suna magana da Harshen Algonquian na Gabas kamar kabilun da yawa a cikin Powhatan Confederacy, shaidar archaeological ta nuna cewa mutanen Chpianese sun kasance daga wani rukuni, Carolina Algonquian.

Tarihi

A shekara ta 1607, Chesepians suna da kimanin mayaƙa 100 kuma jimlar yawan jama'a da aka kiyasta 350. A shekara ta 1669, sun daina wanzuwa a matsayin kabila.

Mutuwa

Alamar kabari na ragowar 'yan asalin Chesapeake

A cewar William Strachey's The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia (1618), Powhatan, babban shugaban Yankin Virginia Peninsula na Powhatan ya shafe Chesepian, wani lokaci kafin zuwan Ingilishi a Jamestown a cikin 1607. An kawar da Chesepian saboda firistocin Powhatan sun gargadi shi cewa "daga Chesapeake Bay ya kamata al'umma ta tashi, wanda ya kamata ya rushe kuma ya kawo karshen mulkinsa".

Kodayake masana tarihi na wannan lokacin sun nuna rashin shakku cewa Powhatans sun kawar da kabilar Chesapeake, imanin Strachey cewa waɗannan annabce-annabce da aka yi jita-jita sun nuna shigar Allah Kirista a madadin Jamestown Colony a kan "Daular Iblis" ya bayyana, a baya, ya fi dacewa.