Etiwan

The Etiwan lived near the junction of the Wando and Cooper rivers, in the country around Charleston harbour. English settlers recorded their communities on an island and along the river, and later near Goose Creek. Like other coastal peoples, they faced raids by the Westo as well as the growing demands of the new colony.

At the beginning of the Yamasee War in 1715, Etiwan fighters helped defend Port Royal for South Carolina, but later that year they joined the colony's opponents. By 1724 their people were dispersed among several parishes. Some asked the colonial assembly for land where they could come together, and it granted a tract west of Wassamasaw Swamp. Governor Glen still described the Etiwan as allies of the English government in 1751.