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One key to Catawba survival andsuccess during the colonial erawas early and constant militaryand economic alliance with theEnglish at Charles Town.Catawba warriors protected theCarolina colony from attacks byFrench-allied natives and acted asethnic soldiers for the English intheir frontier wars. In return,Charles Town granted favoredtrading status to the Catawbas,and supplied the nation with thefirearms, ammunition and othersupplies critical to its survival.
Another strategy that theCatawba Nation employedto build and maintain it’sstrength was incorporationsmall tribes displaced bydisease and warfare. Asearly as 1717, a Shawneeheadman commented on theCatawbas that “there aremany nations under thatname.”WaterieCharraWiapieNustieNasawSuccaCatawba headman’s map ofthe Catawba Nation, 1721.About the year 1743, their nation consisted of almost 400 warriors, of above twentydifferent dialects. … the Katahba, is the standard, or court-dialect—the Wataree, whomake up a large town; Eeno, Chewah, [Cheraw] … Canggaree, Nachee, Yamasee,Coosah, &c. James Adair, 1775
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Page 14 and 15: The Archaeology of mid-18 th centur
Page 16 and 17: Archaeological investigations at Na
Page 18 and 19: Most houses at Nassaw included smal
Page 20 and 21: Incised Bowl DecorationsFolded & No
Page 22 and 23: Nassaw and Weyapee yielded thousand
Page 24 and 25: Abundant gunparts and ammunition re
Page 26 and 27: Cherokee carvedstone tobacco pipesE
Page 28 and 29: 1759 1762The devastating smallpox e
Page 30 and 31: Samuel Wyly’s 1763 survey of the
Page 32 and 33: The 2003 investigations at Old Town
Page 34 and 35: pedestal bases & foot ringspedestal
Page 36 and 37: ulletmoldlead shotGunparts and ammu
Page 38 and 39: ass tinkler conesglass beadscufflin
Page 40 and 41: 2009 investigations at Old Town rev
Page 42 and 43: These excavations revealed multiple
Page 44 and 45: Extent of 2003 and 2009 excavations
Page 46 and 47: Catawbapan fragmentsred sealing wax
Page 48 and 49: Catawba Land Leases“These lands a
Page 50 and 51: Cabin Outline (est.)Tree Disturbanc
Page 52 and 53: Elevated chimney bases at Loci 4and
Page 54 and 55: pistol lockgunflintsbrass escutcheo
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Catawba potters traveled from New T
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Strategies that enabled the Catawba
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The problem of site destruction is
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