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European arrival to NC

about 500 years ago

Native American arrival to NC

1500 years ago

three NC regions

Mountains, Piedmont, Coastal Plain

Cherokee language family

Iroquoian

Cherokee government

Town council that would only accept consensus to make decisions leading to numerous debates

Cherokee women

Women owned the fields and homes and clans were passed through the mother making a matrilineal society

Current citizens of the Cherokee

16,000+ citizens of the eastern band on the Qualla boundary

Qualla boundary

The 57,000 acre nation home to the eastern band of Cherokee Indians

Catawba language family

Siouan, which is the closest to us

Catawba famous traditions

pottery

Catawba men

Farmed

Catawba location

along the Catawba river

1959

Catawba lost federal recognition

1993

Catawba won back federal recognition

Current Catawba citizens

2,800 citizens today

Tuscarora language family

Iroquoian, same as the Cherokee yet they were never allies

Tuscarora peace with settlers

lasted 50 years before war broke out

Causation for the Tuscarora war

Settlers took New Bern without paying and trader sold Tuscarora people as slaves

1772

When the Tuscaroras became the 6th nation of the Haudenosaunee confederacy in New York

current Lumbee members

55,000 members making it the largest side east of the Mississippi

Lumbee counties

Robeson, Hoke, Cumberland, Scotland

UNC Pembroke

Lumbee’s 1887 school

1888

Lumbee’s asked for recognition

2025

Lumbee’s received federal recognition after 137 years