The Sappony (Saponi) are a Native American people historically based in the Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia and now extinct as a tribe. They spoke the Siouan Tutelo-Saponi language, related to the languages of the Tutelo, Occaneechi, Monacan, Manahoac and other eastern Siouan peoples. Reduced by disease and warfare, surviving members of the tribe migrated north to merge with other tribes and disappeared from the historic record by the end of the 18th century.