Bertha George Harris
Bertha George Harris
Bertha George Harris
Catawba Master potter Mohave Bryson demonstrates basic pottery techniques as traditionally practiced by the Catawba.
Mohave Bryson
Catawba Artist Faye Greiner demonstrates traditional reed plaiting basketry techniques.
Dr. Brooke Bauer, Catawba citizen and assistant professor at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster discusses topics of Catawba history from her book, Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540-1840.
Brooke Bauer
Dr. Brooke Bauer, Catawba citizen and Assistant professor of History at USC-Lancaster, discusses the traditional role of Catawba women in land management and the evolution of these practices in Catawba land ownership and leasing in the post-Colombian era. These topics are explored further is chapter 6 of her book, Becoming Catawba.
Dr. Brooke Bauer, Catawba citizen and Assistant professor of History at USC-Lancaster, discusses the historical responses of Catawba women to warfare by the Catawba. These topics are further discussed in chapter 4 of her book, Becoming Catawba.
Dr. Brooke Bauer, Catawba citizen and Assistant professor of History at USC-Lancaster, discusses Catawba history before and after European colonization.
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."
Brooke Bauer