Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540 - 1840

xvi, 245 pages, photographs, illustrations, maps: 24cm.

From the cover: "This unique and important study examines the lives and legacies of women who executed complex decision-making and diplomacy to navigate shifting frameworks of kinship, land ownership, and cultural production in dealings with colonial encroachments, white settlers, and Euro-American legal systems and governments from the mid-sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century. Personified in the figure of Sally New River, a Catawba cultural leader to whom 500 remaining acres of occupied tribal lands were deeded on behalf of the community in 1796 and which she managed until her death in 1821, Bauer reveals how women worked to ensure the survival of the Catawba people and their Catawba identity, an effort that resulted in a unified nation."

Arranged according to the Library of Congress classification system.

This item is open for research use.

Access available at the Catawba Nation Archives.

@2023 Brooke M. Bauer. All rights reserved. Requests for reproduction or use should be directed to the copyright holder.

• Siouan Language
• English

• Latin

Some Catawba words and phrases appear in the text.

No further accruals are expected.

University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL.

First edition, first print.
2 copies.

Record created by Ensley F. Guffey, 2025 April 28.