Obituary: Occaneechi Tribe elder John “Blackfeather” Jeffries
, 2023-01-26 16:39:00, To those who knew him, John “Blackfeather” Jeffries was synonymous with the word Occaneechi. For decades, Jeffries, a former chairman of the Ocaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation who died Tuesday at 83, tirelessly promoted the culture of the North Carolina-based tribe. “When you thought of Occaneechi, you thought of John Blackfeather,” […]