The Wando were a tribe of Native Americans of the Cusabo group who lived in South Carolina on the banks of the Cooper River.
In 1675, the Wando, along with their neighbors, the Etiwan, Sampa, and Sewee petitioned English settler Maurice Mathews asked for land to be reserved for their settled.
[4] The Sewee people lost the majority of their men to an ill-fated ocean voyage, in which they planned to travel to England, but instead were caught in a storm.
Survivors were saved by British vessels only to be sold into slavery in the Caribbean.
[2] The United States Navy tug USS Wando, in commission from 1917–1922 and 1933–1946, was named for them.