Catawba Nation

Author : Charles M. Hudson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820331331

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The Catawba Nation by Charles M. Hudson Pdf

In this reconstruction of the history of the Catawba Indians, Charles M. Hudson first considers the "external history" of the Catawba peoples, based on reports by such outsiders as explorers, missionaries, and government officials. In these chapters, the author examines the social and cultural classification of the Catawbas at the time of early contact with the white men, their later position in a plural southern society and gradual assimilation into the larger national society, and finally the termination of their status as Indians with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This external history is then contrasted with the folk history of the Catawbas, the past as they believe it to have been. Hudson looks at the way this legendary history parallels documentary history, and shows how the Catawbas have used their folk remembrances to resist or adapt to the growing pressures of the outside world.

Author : Thomas J Blumer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625844224

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Catawba Nation by Thomas J Blumer Pdf

The story of one of the few original Native American communities of the Carolinas, whose rich and fascinating history can be dated back to 2400 BC. While the Catawba once inhabited a large swath of land that covered parts of North and South Carolina, and managed to remain in the Carolinas during the notorious Trail of Tears, most Catawba now live on a reservation in York County, South Carolina. In Catawba Nation, longtime tribal historian Thomas J. Blumer seeks to preserve and present the history of this resilient people. Blumer chronicles Catawba history, such as Hernando de Soto’s meeting with the Lady of Cofitachique, the leadership of Chief James Harris, and the fame of potter Georgia Harris, who won the National Heritage Award for her art. Using an engaging mix of folklore, oral history, and historical records, Blumer weaves an accessible history of the tribe, preserving their story of suffering and survival for future generations.

Author : Thomas Blumer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0738517062

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The Catawba Indian Nation of the Carolinas by Thomas Blumer Pdf

The Catawba Indians are aboriginal to South Carolina, and their pottery tradition may be traced to 2,400 B.C. When Hernando de Soto visited the Catawba Nation (then Cofitachique) in 1540, he found a sophisticated Mississippian Culture. After the founding of Charleston in 1670, the Catawba population declined. Throughout subsequent demographic stress, the Catawba supported themselves by making and peddling pottery. They have the only surviving Native American pottery tradition east of the Mississippi. Without pottery, there would be no Catawba Indian Nation today.

Author : Donald T. Healy,Peter J. Orenski
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806155753

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Native American Flags by Donald T. Healy,Peter J. Orenski Pdf

Flags of the Native peoples of the United States proudly display symbols of tribal traditions, art, and culture. In Native American Flags, Donald T. Healy and Peter J. Orenski present an encyclopedic look at the flags and histories of 183 Native American tribes throughout the United States. Listing Indian nations alphabetically, this fully indexed reference includes both federally recognized tribes and other groups, and offers an image of each tribe’s flag and a map of their location within the United States. Each entry includes a brief summary of the tribe’s history, presents information on contemporary Indian peoples, and describes and illustrates in detail the symbolism and imagery of each Native American flag. A gallery of color plates includes full-color representations of 192 historic and contemporary Native flags. The authors visited more than two dozen reservations and surveyed more than 250 tribal governments, working closely with them to produce this authoritative volume. A portion of their original research on Native American flags was published in Raven, the journal of the North American Vexillological Association, an organization devoted to the scientific study of flags. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes more than fifty new flags and accompanying tribal listings and full-color representations of each flag. Carl Waldman’s foreword places the flags within the context of Indian history, mythology, and art, and shows how Native American flags have become powerful symbols of Native unity and tribal sovereignty.

Author : Douglas Summers Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459623004

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The Catawba Indians by Douglas Summers Brown Pdf

Author : Mary E. Fitts
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683400172

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Fit for War by Mary E. Fitts Pdf

“Fitts combines archaeology and ethnohistory to explore Catawba strategies for retaining sovereignty and power in the colonial era. A model of interdisciplinary methodology, this book offers new insights into coalescence, colonialism, and Indigenous persistence.”—Christina Snyder, author of Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America “Skillfully mobilizes a rich array of historical and archaeological evidence to recover from obscurity the decisive role that Catawba women played in guiding their society through highly precarious times.”—Daniel H. Usner Jr., author of Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History “A fascinating glimpse of the Catawba Nation during this critical period. Fitts succeeds in tracing the mechanics of individual decisions that laid the groundwork for collective change.”—William L. Ramsey, author of The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South The Catawba Nat ion played an important role in the early colonial Southeast, serving as a military ally of the British and a haven for refugees from other native groups, yet it has largely been overlooked by scholars and the public. Fit for War explains how the Nation maintained its sovereignty while continuing to reside in its precolonial homeland near present-day Charlotte, North Carolina. Drawing from colonial archives and new archaeological data, Mary Elizabeth Fitts shows that militarization helped the Catawba maintain political autonomy but forced them to consolidate their settlements and—with settler encroachment and a regional drought—led to a food crisis. Focusing on craft and foodways, Fitts uncovers the dynamic interactions between mid-eighteenth-century Catawba communities, as well as how Catawba women worked to feed the Nation, a story missing from colonial records. Her research highlights the double-edged nature of tactics available to American Indian groups seeking to keep their independence in the face of colonization. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Catawba Indians
ISBN : PURD:32754082282595

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The Catawba Tribe of Indians by Anonim Pdf

Author : Walter L. Williams
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820332031

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Southeastern Indians Since the Removal Era by Walter L. Williams Pdf

The authors of these essays are an interdisciplinary team of anthropologists and historians who have combined the research methods of both fields to present a comprehensive study of their subject. Published in 1979, the book takes an ethnohistorical approach and touches on the history, anthropology, and sociology of the South as well as on Native American studies. While much has been written on the archaeology, ethnography, and early history of southern Indians before 1840, most scholarly attention has shifted to Oklahoma and western Indians after that date. In studies of the New South or of Indian adaptation after the passage of the frontier, southeastern native peoples are rarely mentioned. This collection fills that void by providing an overview history of the culture and ethnic relations of the various Indian groups that managed to escape the 1830s removal and retain their ethnic identity to the present.

Author : Mikaëla M. Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190619480

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Who Belongs? by Mikaëla M. Adams Pdf

Who can lay claim to a legally-recognized Indian identity? Who decides whether or not an individual qualifies? The right to determine tribal citizenship is fundamental to tribal sovereignty, but deciding who belongs has a complicated history, especially in the South. Indians who remained in the South following removal became a marginalized and anomalous people in an emerging biracial world. Despite the economic hardships and assimilationist pressures they faced, they insisted on their political identity as citizens of tribal nations and rejected Euro-American efforts to reduce them to another racial minority, especially in the face of Jim Crow segregation. Drawing upon their cultural traditions, kinship patterns, and evolving needs to protect their land, resources, and identity from outsiders, southern Indians constructed tribally-specific citizenship criteria, in part by manipulating racial categories - like blood quantum - that were not traditional elements of indigenous cultures. Mikaëla M. Adams investigates how six southern tribes-the Pamunkey Indian Tribe of Virginia, the Catawba Indian Nation of South Carolina, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida-decided who belonged. By focusing on the rights and resources at stake, the effects of state and federal recognition, the influence of kinship systems and racial ideologies, and the process of creating official tribal rolls, Adams reveals how Indians established legal identities. Through examining the nineteenth and twentieth century histories of these Southern tribes, Who Belongs? quashes the notion of an essential "Indian" and showcases the constantly-evolving process of defining tribal citizenship.

Author : Douglas Summers Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCAL:$B535957

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The Catawba Indians, the People of the River by Douglas Summers Brown Pdf

Concerned with the tribes, or fragments of tribes, of Siouan stock in the Carolinas.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1364 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UIUC:30112086382378

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Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the United States by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Fenton,Jared Hickman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190221942

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Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon by Elizabeth Fenton,Jared Hickman Pdf

As the sacred text of a modern religious movement of global reach, The Book of Mormon has undeniable historical significance. That significance, this volume shows, is inextricable from the intricacy of its literary form and the audacity of its historical vision. This landmark collection brings together a diverse range of scholars in American literary studies and related fields to definitively establish The Book of Mormon as an indispensable object of Americanist inquiry not least because it is, among other things, a form of Americanist inquiry in its own right--a creative, critical reading of "America." Drawing on formalist criticism, literary and cultural theory, book history, religious studies, and even anthropological field work, Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon captures as never before the full dimensions and resonances of this "American Bible."

Author : James H. Merrell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838693

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The Indians’ New World by James H. Merrell Pdf

This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries later. It is a story of Native agency, creativity, resilience, and endurance. Upon its original publication in 1989, James Merrell's definitive history of Catawbas and their neighbors in the southern piedmont helped signal a new direction in the study of Native Americans, serving as a model for their reintegration into American history. In an introduction written for this twentieth anniversary edition, Merrell recalls the book's origins and considers its place in the field of early American history in general and Native American history in particular, both at the time it was first published and two decades later.

Author : Peter C. Mancall,James Hart Merrell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Indian Removal, 1813-1903
ISBN : 0415923751

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American Encounters by Peter C. Mancall,James Hart Merrell Pdf

A collection of articles that describe the relationships and encounters between Native Americans and Europeans throughout American history.

Author : Ulrike Wiethaus
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820481696

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Foundations of First Peoples' Sovereignty by Ulrike Wiethaus Pdf

Foundations of First Peoples' Sovereignty is an innovative collection of essays offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the topic of sovereignty for Indigenous nations. Presenting contemporary initiatives and scholarship in the humanities on behalf of First Peoples, the volume affirms and explores the dynamic interplay between tribal community action and reflection, academic work, and the commonalities shared by Indigenous nations globally.