Description
The Eno or Enoke, also called Stuckenock, was an American Indian tribe located in North Carolina during the 17th and 18th centuries that was later absorbed into the Catawba tribe in South Carolina along with various other smaller tribal bands. The Eno Indians were likely one of the loosely related tribes of Siouan-speaking Native Americans at the time of European exploration. By the early 18th century, the Enos, combined with the Shakoris, Tutelos, Saponis, Keyauwees, and Occaneechis, were reduced to a population of approximately 750 people. About 1715, the Enos merged with the Catawbas in the North Carolina-South Carolina border area; the Enos became "member elements of the Catawba" perhaps due to the outcome of the Yamassee War, in which the Enos may or may not have participated. The Eno Indians were a small tribe of North Carolina, allies of the Catawba Indians.
Language
Their language was never recorded, but may have been a Siouan language similar to Catawba.
Culture
The Eno village as surrounded by large cultivated fields and as built around a central plaza where the men played a game and was probably the chunkey game played with round stones among the Creeks. They were mound builders unlike any other Indians in North Carolina. On the Eno or on the lands near it, five historic tribes or subgroups appear to have lived. The Eno, Shocco and Adshusheer, all Sioux Indians with some mixture of ol-Algonquin, settled in villages and farmed.