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Archaeological survey report on 300 acre tract in York County, SC.

From the cover: "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."

Contains an April 1997 copy of the CIN Personnel Policy Manual.

Very brief overview of Catawba history produced by SC Department of Education.

From the cover: "The Catawba Indians: The People of the River, is the first full-length work on this tribe that has been obscured and largely overshadowed by other well-known Indians of America. This history is concerned primarily with the tribes and fragment of tribes of Siouan lineage who inhabited the Catabwa-Wateree-Santee River basin, principally the Catawbas. It traces these Indians from the time the white man first appeared on southeastern shores, ending with the remnant that now lives on The Reservation near Rock Hill, South Carolina. The Catawbas were one of the thirty known tribes of Indians residing in South Carolina. Of these, the four principal stocks were Iroquoian, Algonquian, Muskhogean (Creek), and Siouan. The Catawba Indians gave their name to the headwaters of the river that has been traditionally associated with their home; and two of the tribes which The Nation absorbed, the Waterees and the Santees, are also recalled in the Catawba-Wateree-Santee basin. Constant in their friendship for Americans, the Catawbas fought with them in every war in which this country was involved, except the Yamassee War. Two tangible reminders of this faithful and fearless tribe are the Monument to the Catawbas at Fort Mill, South Carolina, and Camden's effigy to King Hagler, their noblest chief, which serves as a weathervane atop the old city hall."

Essays and photographs of the Catawba River and its people.

From the cover: "A comprehensive guide - descriptions of state parks, boat ramps, bed and breakfasts, fishing docks, marinas and camping sites. Extensive section of maps on about 225 miles of the Catawba from Lake James to Lake Wateree."

From the cover: "The Catawba - also known as Issa or Esaw, but most commonly Iswa - are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans, known as the Catawba Indian Nation. They live in the Southeast United States, along the border between North and South Carolina near the city of Rock Hill. The Catawba were once considered one of the most powerful Southeastern Siouan-speaking tribes. The Catawba and other Siouan peoples are believed to have coalesced as individual tribes in the Southeast. Primarily involved in agriculture, the Catawba were friendly toward early European colonists. They were at almost constant war with tribes of other major language families: the Iroquois, the Algonquian Shawnee and Delaware, and the Iroquoian Cherokee, who fought for control over the large Ohio Valley (including what is now in present-day West Virginia).[1] They served during the American Revolutionary War with the colonists against the British. Decimated by earlier smallpox epidemics, tribal warfare and social disruption, the Catawba declined markedly in number in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The people ceded their homeland to South Carolina in 1840 by a treaty that was not approved by the United States and was automatically invalid. Terminated by the federal government in 1959, the Catawba Indian Nation reorganized and in 1973 began its struggle to gain federal recognition. It accomplished this in 1993, along with a $50 million settlement by the federal government and state of South Carolina of its longstanding land claims. It was also officially recognized by the state of North Carolina in 1993. Its headquarters is at Rock Hill, South Carolina."

From the Cover: "Though they speak several different languages and organize themselves into many distinct tribes, the Native American peoples of the Southeast share a complex ancient culture and a tumultuous history. This volume examines and synthesizes their history through each of its integral the complex and elaborate societies that emerged and flourished in the Pre-Columbian period; the triple curse of disease, economic dependency, and political instability brought by the European invasion; the role of Native Americans in the inter-colonial struggles for control of the region; the removal of the "Five Civilized Tribes" to Oklahoma; the challenges and adaptations of the post-removal period; and the creativity and persistence of those who remained in the Southeast."