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WACCAMAW INDIAN PEOPLE Home Learn Updates Outreach Contact More UNIVERSITY HONORSCHIEF HATCHER Chief Hatcher receives honorary degree from Coastal Carolina University We are the first tribe in the State of South Carolina to obtain official recognition from the South Carolina Office of Vital Statistics. Additionally the Waccamaw gained approval from the Governors Minority Affairs Ad Hoc Committee on Indian Recognition as an Indian Tribe as defined in the State of South Carolina. At the South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs meeting on February 17 2005 the Waccamaw Indian People made history by becoming the first of two state recognized tribes in the history of the state of South Carolina. Today there are nine state recognized tribes in South Carolina.