Catawba Elder Keith Brown recounts the traditional Catawba creation story.
Catawba TraditionalCatawba Elder Beckee Garris tells the Catawba creation story "First Woman," and the traditional Catawba story of the Yehasuri, the "little people." She contextualizes the stories within Catawba culture and society by talking about Catawba history and traditions. Also includes discussion of a book collection of Native stories which included these tales.
Catawba TraditionalCatawba artist Travis Blue Demonstrates how to put a rim on a reed basket.
Travis BlueCatawba artist Kassidy Plyler demonstrates the traditional Catawba women's Fancy Dance.
Catawba Cultural Services DivisionDr. Wenonah Haire demonstrates the use of Delica beads to created beaded artwork.
Dr. Wenonah G. HaireKim Rodgers demonstrates how to hang, gut, skin, and process a deer.
Kim RodgersIn this video, Catawba Citizen Roo George-Warren demonstrates how to use fibrous plants found in the Catawba homlands to create cordage, or rope.
Catawba Cultural Services DivisionDr. Heather Lapham, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Research Labs of Archaeology, discusses the process of designing and installing museum displays at the Catawba Cultural Center combining archaeological materials from UNC, artifacts from the Catawba Nation Archives, and collaboration between Dr. Lapham's team and the Cultural Center staff.
Catawba Cultural Services DivisionChef Dave McCluskey provides a brief overview of the importance of corn to indigenous people, and the traditional methods used for nixtamalization to improve the nutritional value of native corn. This brief talk was presented at a dinner featuring foods prepared with Catawba corn for the first time in living memory.
Catawba Cultural Services DivisionDr. Steve Davis discusses his archaeological discoveries that reveal some of the history of the ancestral Catawba tribes in North Carolina.
Dr. R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr.