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The Occaneechi, who live primarily on a large, four-mile (6.4 kilometers) long Island surrounded by the Dan and Roanoke rivers near current day Clarksville, Virginia, are Siouan-speaking, and thus related to the Saponi, Tutelo, Eno and other Southeastern Siouan-language peoples living in the Piedmont region of present-day North Carolina and Virginia.
The Occaneechi are mentioned in seventeenh-century colonial English records as living on the Trading Path that connects Virginia with the interior of North America.
Their position on the Trading Path gives the Occaneechi the power to act as trading "middlemen" between Virginia and various tribes to the west.
Abraham Wood, an English fur trader (specifically the beaver and deerskin trades) sometimes referred to as "General" or "Colonel" Wood, sends his friend James Needham and his indentured servant Gabriel Arthur into the southern Appalachian Mountains in 1673 in an attempt to make direct contact with the Cherokee, thus bypassing the Occaneechi, and to find an outlet to the Pacific Ocean.
...they come to the Occaneechi tribe.
After getting the Occaneechi to attack the Susquehannock, Bacon and his men follow by killing most of the men, women, and children at the village.