103 East Center Street, Mebane, NC 27302 • Phone: (919) 304-3723 • Fax: (919) 304-3724

The Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation—OBSN for short—is a small Indian community located primarily in the old settlement of Little Texas, Pleasant Grove Township, Alamance County, North Carolina. The OBSN community is a lineal descendant of the Saponi and related Indians who occupied the Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia in pre-contact times, and specifically of those Saponi and related Indians who formally became tributary to Virginia under the Treaties of Middle Plantation in 1677 and 1680, and who, under the subsequent treaty of 1713 with the Colony of Virginia, agreed to join together as a single community...Read More