Catawba citizen and artist Beckee Garris demonstrates the Catawba Women's Honor and Welcome dances.
Catawba Cultural Services DivisionCatawba artist Kassidy Plyler demonstrates the traditional Catawba women's Fancy Dance.
Catawba Cultural Services DivisionCatawba artist Travis Blue demonstrates the traditional Catawba Hunter's Dance.
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 DivisionChef Dave Smoke McCluskey discusses the history and importance of corn in the indigenous American diet and culture.
Dave Smoke McCluskeyCatawba 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 TraditionalThis series collects a series of three digital videos of Dr. R.P. Stephen Davis, Jr. of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Archaeology discussing his decades of work and discoveries at Catawba sites across the Carolinas.
Catawba Cultural Services DivisionDr. Davis take a close look at late Catawba settlement sites near Nation Ford, South Carolina.
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.