Tuesday, August 11, 2015

The Native American Studies Archive
Genealogical Materials

The following published works and archival material folders represent various genealogical resources available at the Native American Studies Archive. It should also be noted the archive contains several other texts devoted solely to identifying and researching one’s Native American ancestry.

Catawba Indians:  
I. Print Resources
Blumer, Thomas John. Bibliography of the Catawba. Meutchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1987.

Head/Bentley Family: two cultures joined together to form one great family. [1995].
Martin, Judy Canty. Genealogy of the Western Catawba: Genealogy of the 5 Families and those who joined them in the west. Cortez, CO.  J Martin, [2002?].
Martin, Judy Canty. It's about time : the complete genealogy of the Catawba Indians early, 1700-1961 : (including both western and eastern families. Cortez, CO. J. Martin, [2000?].
Martin, Judy Canty. My Father’s People: A Complete Genealogy of the Catawba Nation.
        Cortez, CO.  J Martin, 2002.

Watson, Ian. Catawba Indian Genealogy. Geneseo Foundation: Dept of Anthropology, SUNY at Geneseo, 1995. Print.  This excellent resource is also available online at:

II. Archival Resources
The following resources are all located in the TJ Blumer Collection on the Catawba Nation.

Census Information:
Analyses and Commentary
1820 (Hugh White Accounts)
1840s (Hutchinson Papers)
1849
1862 (J. R. Patton, Catawba Indian Agent)
1872 (Fairmount, Ga. – Oklahoma Removal)
1880 (United States Census)
1900 (United States Census)
1900 (Sanford, Co.)
1908 (Eastern Band Cherokee Indians of N.C.)
1910 (United States Census)
1930 (United States Census)

Genealogy Information:
Ballard/Harris Families (Western Catawba)
Beck Family
Blue Family – from Florence I. Speck trip of 22 Jan. 1942                  
Blue/Sanders Family – Records kept by Mohave Sanders Bryson and Arzada Sanders
Catawba Funeral Records kept by Garfield Harris (1950-1989) 
Cherokee Intermarriage          
Harris Family (1843-1979) Record kept by Bertha Mae George Harris
Harris Family (1872-1951) Record kept by Fannie Canty George
Harris Family (1756-1966) Georgia Harris family chronology
Harris Family Records compiled by Garfield Harris
Head Family Records kept by Harry and Beverly Head
Information from the Catawba Indian Plat and Account Book (c. 1805-1844)
Marsh/Mush Family (Pamunkey/Catawba)
Marsh/Mush Family includes Garcia, Patterson and White (Western Catawba)
Miscellaneous
Mormon Records
Olin Plyler Family Records (1867-1965)
Price Family                   
Scots-Irish Intermarriages – Smith, Pat and Dwight A. Radford (1999) – “The Scots-Irish
        as Catawba”
Walsh Family Records kept by Cynthia Walsh (primarily Western Catawba)

Biographical Files:
The TJ Blumer Collection on the Catawba Indian contains over 200 individual biographical files. These folders contain clippings, death certificates, and various ephemera.

Clippings Files:
Catawba Indian newspaper Clippings begins in 1875 and continue to present day.  

Cherokee Indians:
Print Resources:
Blankenship, Bob. Cherokee Roots. B Blankenship, 1978.

Jerry Wright Jordan Comp. Cherokee by blood : records of Eastern Cherokee ancestry in the US Court of Claims, 1906-1910. 3 vols. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1987-1988. Print.

Starr, Emmett. History of the Cherokee Indians and their legends and folklore. 1921. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Co., 1977.

Starr, Emmett. Old Cherokee Families: Notes of Dr. Emmett Starr. 2 vols. Oklahoma City: Baker Publishing Co., 1988. 

South Carolina Indians: 
I. Print Resources
Haithcock, Richard L and Vicki L Haithcock. Occaneechie Saponi and Tutelo of the Saponi nation, aka Piedmont Catawba : southeastern Indian refugees from Virginia, the Carolinas and Tennessee in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. Haithcock, 1995.  

South Carolina Indians, Indian traders, and other ethnic connection: beginning in 1670.
Theresa M. Hicks ed. Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Co., 1998. 

II. Archival Resources:
The Wesley Taukchiray Collection contains genealogical information on several different South Carolina Tribes. Many of these folders contain extensive family documentation along with family trees created by Mr. Taukchiray.

Edisto Natchez Kusso Tribe of South Carolina  

Taukchiray, Wes. Some of the Written Memory of the Natchez-Kusso Indians of Edisto River.
Ridgeville, SC: Natchez-Kusso Indian Tribe and Nation, 1980.

Santee Indian Organization

Sumter Tribe of Cheraw Indians
Benenhaley, Dr. Eleazer. An Analysis of Neophytes and Would Be Historians

Taukchiray, Wes. A History of the Turks who Live in Sumter, South Carolina from 1810 to 1972.
Washington, DC: Center for the Study of Man, Smithsonian Institution, 1975.

Wassamassaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians


Virginia:

I. Print Resources:

Monocan Indian Nation:
I. Print Resource:
Whitlock, Rosemary. The Monocan Indian Nation of Virginia. Tuscaloosa, U of Al Press: 2008. 

II Archival Resource:
The Rosemary Clark Whitlock Collection at USC Lancaster contains additional information.  

Pamunkey Indian Nation: 
From the TJB Collection on the Catawba Nation:

Censuses
1820 (United States Census)
1830 (United States Census)
1840 (United States Census)
1850 (United States Census)
1860 (United States Census)
1880 (United States Census, incomplete)
1900 (United States Census, includes some Mattaponi)
1910 (United States Census, includes some Mattaponi)  

Clippings (1884-2001) See also Virginia clippings file

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