Description
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: Thomas Blumer, Charles W. Pomeroy
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Published: 10/20/2004
Pages: 130
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9781531611699
ISBN10: 1531611699
BISAC Categories:
- History | Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
Author: Thomas Blumer, Charles W. Pomeroy
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Published: 10/20/2004
Pages: 130
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9781531611699
ISBN10: 1531611699
BISAC Categories:
- History | Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
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