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This series of videos provides an overview of the Catawba Nation's government structure and the responsibilities of some of the government's divisions. This series was presented as virtual programming and was recorded via Zoom.

Recordings of the Catawba Listen & Learn virtual programming series. Each video focuses on a single, discrete subject.

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.

Contains 9 items:

1. Small hand drum with black and white drumhead, illustrated with diamond-shapes and painting of a face in profile. Octagonal, 12” (30.5 cm) edge-to-edge, wood & hide, joined with nails, brass tacks for decoration. Undated.
2. Clay pot, potter unknown. Undated.
3. Broken spiral seashell, 2 pieces 10.5 cm and 3 cm long
4. Turtle pendant necklace. Pony beads, Peruvian brass & clay beads, deer-hide trailer decorated with symbols having special meaning to the maker, silver turtle pendant in southwestern US native style.
5. 3”x5” index card describing Turtle pendant necklace.
6. Cassette tape, labeled Oral History Class Tape #1
7. Cassette tape, labels Oral History Class Tape #2.
8. Medicine bundle. Hide, decorated with stylized sun and water in paint.
9. 5”x8” index card detailing medicine bag purpose and meaning.

This series collects digital video files relating to traditional Catawba uses and techniques for a variety of natural resources found in the traditional Catawba homelands along the Catawba River.

This series collects video tutorials for traditional Catawba and Native American dances, as demonstrated by Catawba dancers.

This series contains materials produced by the CCPP Language Department deemed to be of historical interest, including linguistic information and educational resources, as well as departmental records.

Contains:
-Assistant Chief Buck George’s old monogrammed long-sleeve polo shirt, along with a USNS Catawba T-ATF 168 naval service baseball cap and a Catawba Bingo baseball cap.
-A July 1990 manual on the Catawba Indian Nation’s Personnel Policies and procedures from the South Carolina Indian Employment, Training and Development Division
-1st Quarter 2014 Catawba Nation Newsletter on new bingo location in Rock Hill
-Various booklets, newsletters, and newspaper clippings relating to the Yap Ye Iswa Festivals and some potential legal trouble with the tribal bingo parlors
-Also includes a 1989 Covenant Not To Sue between the Tribe and the Transamerica Title In- surance Company of Tampa, FL
-Several newsletter magazines from Duke Energy, the USET, and the Seminole Tribe dating from 2003-2014
-Several short books on the history of the Catawba Indians and on the maintenance/creation of Native American community museums
-Some correspondence, newsletters, and lists of regulations concerning economic develop- ment, educational services, public works, health service, a newly proposed constitution in 2001, and a brief history on the tribe since regaining its Federal Recognition status in 1993
-Some newspaper clippings about students from the area/tribe who received regional recogni- tion for their excellence from the early 2000s
-miscellaneous papers/sheet music/booklets, 1993-2006
-Several newspaper clippings relating to Indian affairs in south Carolina, 1989-2006
-An old binder entitled Artifacts: Volume II, FY:91 containing candid photographs of the tribe, important newspaper clippings, and other correspondences from 1990-93
-miscellaneous papers/documents pertaining to the terms of property use when renting the Catawba Cultural Center grounds
-A large packet of papers entitled “06-07 Programs, Contracts, and Calendars” containing cor- respondence, contract terms, and program proposals from 2006-2007
-miscellaneous documents/memorandums/correspondence/newspaper articles, 1992-2002
-A mostly blank 2010 calendar
-A 2007 calendar as well
-miscellaneous documents outlining the rules of property use from 2007
-A March 2008 calendar, and an October/December 2004 one as well
-A copy of the Catawba Nation Constitution from 2002
-Miscellaneous calendar portions, newsletters, and correspondence from 2002-2015
-A corporation budgetary report on a 2000 “Green Earth” development project in a folder enti- tled “ISWA Development”
-A folded Catawba Indian Nation flag
-A variety of newspaper clippings, [n.d.]
-Miscellaneous correspondence, form letters, brochures, [n.d.]
-Some DVDs, VHS tapes, and CDs on the history of the tribe
-Evans McClure George’s Education certificate from Dale Carnegie Courses
-A pen bearing then-president Bill Clinton’s signature
-Two 1998 award pedestals
-A rolled-up poster