Saponi is one of the eastern Siouan-language tribes related to the Tutelo Occaneechi Monacan Manahoac and other eastern Siouan peoples. Its ancestral homeland was in North Carolina and Virginia. The tribe was long believed extinct as its members migrated north to merge with other tribes.
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