News: Heritage Center highlights Lowcountry tribe for Native American Heritage Month

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCSC) – The Dorchester Heritage Center is hosting a free event Thursday featuring the Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe to celebrate November as Native American Heritage Month.

The event will be held at The Ponds neighborhood community farmhouse. This is because the land once belonged to the tribe.

The Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe is also known as the Charleston tribe or Colleton County tribe.

Documentation of the tribe’s history goes all the way back to the 1500s.