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Sappony

State-recognized tribe in North Carolina, United States

(2019)

$96,996^[1]Expenses (2019)$54,912^[1]Fundinggrants, contributions, investment income and dividends^[1]Websitesappony.org

Formerly called

Indians of Person County^[3]

The Sappony are a state-recognized tribe in North Carolina.^[2] They claim descent from the historic Saponi people, an Eastern Siouan language-speaking tribe who occupied the Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia.

They were previously called the Indians of Person County.^[3] They are based in Roxboro,^[1] the seat of Person County, North Carolina.

The Sappony are not federally recognized as a Native American tribe^[2] and have never petitioned for federal recognition.^[4]^[5]

Nonprofit organization

In 1996, the Sappony formed a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization named the High Plains Indians.^[1]

In 2018, Dante Desiderio served as the High Plains Indians' Executive Director and Charlene Martin served as the treasurer.^[1]

Administration

In 2021, the administration of the Sappony were as follows.^[6]

Otis K. Martin, tribal chief
Dorothy Stewart Crowe, board chairperson
Charlene Y. Martin, treasurer
Juila Martin Phipps, secretary
Danta Desiderio, executive director.^[6]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ "High Plains Indians". Cause IQ. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "State Recognized Tribes". National Conference of State Legislatures. Archived from the original on 1 September 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
^ ^a ^b Mark Edwin Miller, Claiming Tribal Identity, page 346.
^ "Office of Federal Acknowledgment (OFA)". Indian Affairs. U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
^ "Sappony search". US Department of Indian Affairs. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
^ ^a ^b "High Plains Indians Inc". open990. Retrieved 5 February 2022.

References

Miller, Mark Edwin (2013). Claiming Tribal Identity: The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0806143781.