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UNC Libraries: John Hayles Blackfeather Jeffries Collection on Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, 1950-2017.Open the sourceAll sources
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- Recent decades · 1976–2026
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First annual Occaneechi powwow on the Eno planned for downtown Hillsborough
John Jeffries planned the first annual powwow on the Eno River in downtown Hillsborough. The band now holds its annual powwow and fall festival on its tribal land in Alamance County.
People: John Blackfeather Jeffries
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Occaneechi Homeland Preservation Project begins
In 2002, the year North Carolina recognized the tribe, the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation began buying back ancestral land through the Occaneechi Homeland Preservation Project. Its first purchase, a 25-acre parcel in Alamance County, followed in 2004, and a later phase funded by the NC Tobacco Trust Fund planned heritage farms linked to the tribe's reconstructed 1680 village.
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Occaneechi Band buys 25 acres for its tribal grounds
The band bought a 25-acre tract of former tobacco farmland near Dailey Store Road in northeastern Alamance County, the first land it had held as a tribe in over two centuries. The site became its ceremonial ground, open-air museum and tribal center.
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Occaneechi Band establishes a permanent ceremonial ground on its new land
The band established a permanent ceremonial ground on the Alamance County tract, which later hosted its powwow and its annual School Days for area students.
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John Blackfeather Jeffries gives his Occaneechi collection to UNC's Southern Historical Collection
Jeffries gave the Wilson Library about 5,000 items, including photographs of Occaneechi powwows and of the replica village's construction in Hillsborough, recordings of Occaneechi, Saponi and Tutelo songs, and the band's petition for state acknowledgment of tribal status.
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