Indigenous Carolinians
A History from Original Peoples to Present-Day Tribes
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About the Book
This comprehensive work decolonizes our understanding of Carolina’s Indigenous People and presents the complete histories and cultures of the region’s First Peoples. Applying traditional academic and Indigenous research methodologies, the author examines the oral histories, languages, and cultures of four diverse ethnolinguistic groups. These groups, although among the first to be colonized on this continent, underwent ethnogenesis and adapted. They partnered with politicians, married traders, and other free people. They fought in wars beside and against the colonists and formed alliances that would divide ancient kinships. They were disenfranchised, persecuted, and all but erased by the newcomers.
Powerful and sophisticated societies became stateless diasporic refugees, coalesced into small bands where they spoke English. Except for the Catawba, Tuscarora, and remnants on a few reservations, their tribal identities faded, and they collectively referred to themselves as their race—Indian. After reorganizing their tribal governments in the twentieth century, they reclaimed their identities and heritage. This is their complete journey.
About the Author(s)
Bibliographic Details
David Rahahę·tih Webb
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages:
Bibliographic Info: ca. 60 photos, glossary, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2025
pISBN: 978-1-4766-9727-7
eISBN: 978-1-4766-5524-6
Imprint: McFarland
Book Reviews & Awards
“Indigenous Carolinians adds to a growing number of community voices about the Native history and culture of the southern Mid-Atlantic. Using primary sources, oral traditions, and works in history and anthropology, David Rahahęì·tih Webb provides readers valuable insights and an insider’s perspective into the Indigenous past and contemporary descendant communities of the eastern Carolinas.”—Buck Woodard, assistant professor of Anthropology and Native Studies, William & Mary
