The Winyah (/ ˈwɪnjɑː / WIN-yah) were an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands who lived near Winyah Bay, the Black River, and the lower course of the Pee Dee River in South Carolina during the 18th century.

Winyah Bay is a coastal estuary that is the confluence of the Waccamaw River, the Pee Dee River, the Black River, and the Sampit River in Georgetown County, in eastern South Carolina. Its name comes from the Winyah people, who inhabited the region during the eighteenth century.

Information about the Winyah, including their history and current status as well as their dwellings, food, clothing, and tribal beliefs and practices. Lists of related online and printed resources are also provided.

These small tribes lived on the lower Pedee and its tributaries in South Carolina and the contiguous border of North Carolina. Nothing is known of their language and very little can now be learned of their former daily life or their religious system of …

The Winyaw primarily lived on what is present-day Winyah Bay, Black River, and the lower course of the Pee Dee River, all in South Carolina. Unless this tribe is represented by the Yenyohol of Francisco of Chicora (1521), the Winyaw were first mentioned by the colonists of …

Welcome to the official page of the Black River Tribe of Winyah-Dawhee, a small but proud Native American tribe descended from a small Indigenous remnant group just north of Greeleyville, South Carolina.

Complex chiefdoms first arose in the area between 1150 and 1200 AD. Tribes neighboring the Waccamaw included the Sewees, Santees, Sampits (Sampa), Winyahs, and Pedees. [5] According to ethnographer John R. Swanton, the Waccamaw may have been one of the first mainland groups of Natives visited by the Spanish explorers in the 16th century.

Winyaw Indians. One of the small tribes living on lower Pedee river and its tributaries in South Carolina. Of their language nothing is known, and very little else in recorded concerning them, as they were never prominent in history. It is supposed, however, from their associations that they were of Siouan affinity.

Indie rock band from the Winyah Bay of South Carolina.

The Winyaw were a Native American tribe living near Winyah Bay, Black River, and the lower course of the Pee Dee River in South Carolina. The Winyaw people disappeared as a distinct entity after 1720 and are thought to have merged with the Waccamaw.