Record details

• ISBN: 0895870665
• ISBN: 9780895870667
• Physical Description: xx, 298 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher: Winston-Salem : John F. Blair, 1957.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A publication of the Wachovia Historical Society."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The Old North State -- The Indians Meet the Spaniards: De Soto's expedition; Exploits of Juan Pardo; Chicora -- The Indians Meet the English: Expedition of discovery; The First Colony; Hariot's narrative; The John White pictures; The Lost Colony -- Decline of the Coastal Tribes: The Algonquian stock; A Virginia expedition; George Fox preaches to the Indians; Subjection; Hatteras; Indians; Chowan; Weapomeiok; Machapunga, Bay River, Pamlico, and Coranine; Neuse Indians; Woccon; The Cape Fear Indians -- The Tuscarora: Iroquois of the Coastal Plain; De Graffenried's narrative; The Tuscarora War; More about De Graffenried; Defeat -- Discoveries of John Lederer -- A Trading Ford Tragedy -- Lawson's Long Trail -- The Dividing Line -- The Land of Eden -- Last Chronicles of the Piedmont Tribes: Saponi and Tutelo; The Occaneechee; Saura, Keyauwee, and Eno; The Saxapahaw; Cape Fear Indians; Catawba confederates; Lost tribes; Siouan tribes of the East -- The Catawba: Siouan survivors; King Haiglar; A Catawba legend; Catawba texts -- The Indians of Robeson County -- The Cherokee: Part I. Iroquoian stock of the Southern Mountains; The French and Indian War; The Cerhokee Nation; Bartram's travels. Part II. The Cerhokee War; Dealings with the United States government; The Cherokee removal. Part III. The Eastern Cherokee; Some prominent characters -- Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee: The cult of the Shamans; Origin of disease and medicine; Cherokee theology; Incantations -- Myths of the Cherokee: The Mooney collection -- Cherokee Games: Chungke; Ball play -- Notes on Indian Life -- Archaeology -- Indian Antiquities: Geology of North Carolina; Artifacts -- Supplement -- Index.

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Indians of North America > North Carolina.
Indigenous peoples.
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