Native American Entities Reference Files

The Native American Studies Archive actively seeks to continually add new material. Contemporary scholarship alongside new finds in recently digitized materials continue to increase our growing knowledge and understanding of Native American History in South Carolina and the Southeastern United States. Journal articles, clippings, photographs, and tribal correspondence and newsletters comprise this collection.

These files are very much a work in progress.  It is hoped that South Carolina tribal members and leaders will send us copies of tribal newsletters and other archival materials for inclusion in these materials. 

For any questions or possible corrections, please email the archivist:  wbburgin@sc.edu

American Indian Chamber of Commerce (AICCSC) (Berkeley County)

Beaver Creek Indians (Orangeburg County)

Additional materials located in Alice B Kasakoff Collection including tribal history by Melinda Hewitt. These materials apply to several Pee Dee groups.

        Publications - Newsletter Beaver Creek Indians of Orangeburg County South Carolina, 2007-

Chaloklowa Chickasaw Indians (Williamsburg County)

Catawba Indian Nation (York County)

Additional materials located in the Thomas J Blumer, Early Fred Sanders, Steven Guy Baker, Monty Hawk Branham Collections

Writings:

Adams, Mikaëla M (2012) – “Residency and Enrollment: Diaspora and the Catawba

          Indian Nation”

Auguste, Nicol (2009) – “By Her Hands: Catawba Women and Tribal Survival, Civil War

         Through Reconstruction”

Crow, Rosanna (2011) – “Geochemical Analysis of Catawba Ceramics” (Honors Thesis, UNC)

EchoHawk, Dana Rae (2012) – “Struggling to Find Zion: Mormons in Colorado’s San

          Luis Valley” (Master’s Thesis, U of Colorado)

Federal Writers Project Papers (1936) – “Pockets in America: Catawba Indians”

Fitts, Mary Elizabeth (2015) – “Defending and Provisioning the Catawba Nation: An

        Archaeology of the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Communities at Nation Ford”

        (PhD Dissertation, UNC)

Fortner, Jefferson Locke (2012) – “Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and the Story of the

         Catawba nation” (Master’s Thesis, Eastern Carolina University) (contains interview with

         Catawba Indian Beckee Garris)

 Loftis, Lynn (1994) – “Comment: The Catawbas’ Final Battle: A Bittersweet Victory”

 Miley & Associates, Inc.  (2012) – “The Economic Impact of the Catawba Gaming Facility”

Photographs:

1.  Catawba Indian School, Grade 3 & 4, Mrs. Robinson’s class (ca. 1964)

     Front Row L to R: Vanessa Brown, Fionnie George, Larry Brown, Jimmy Howard

     Second Row L to R: Matthew Thatcher, Calvin Potts, Edwin Campbell, Lily Howard

     Third Row L to R: Nathan Blue, Midge Simmers, Cora Harris, John Hugh Potts

     Fourth Row (Rear) L to R: Lester Harris, Tommy George, Lucille Potts, Pam Thatcher

2.  Catawba Indian school children inside the school. Photograph by Viola Floyd, Apr. 3,

     1956.  Identified students are: Pete Blue, Jackie Canty, Beckee Garris, Walter Harris,

     Randall Sanders, Norma Jean Sanders Usher, Mike Wade. 4 unidentified.

3.  Catawba Indian school children outside the school. Photograph by Viola Floyd, Apr. 3,

     1956. Identified students are: Pete Blue? Herman Brown, Lynn Cantey? Beckee Garris,

     Debra Harris, Dessa Harris, Kaye Harris, Anne Sanders Morris, Lucille Potts, Randall

     Sanders, Gerold Simmers, Jean Sanders Usher. 15 unidentified.

Publications:

Catawba Nation News, 2^nd  Quarter 2012

Cherokee Bear Clan of SC (Oconee County)

Circle of Native Americans (Lexington County)

Chicora Indian Tribe of SC (Horry County)

Additional Materials located in the Alice B Kasakoff Collection

Correspondence, 1993-1994, also includes a few clippings and research notes

Taukchiray, Wesley (1991) – “Report on a Visit with the Indians in Horry County, South

       Carolina, October 8-10, 1991

Croatan Indian Tribe of SC (Orangeburg County)

Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois and United Tribes of SC

Edisto Natchez-Kusso Indians (Colleton, Dorchester Counties)

Additional materials located in Alice B Kasakoff Collection including a brief tribal

history by Herb McAmis

Clippings, 1975-1983       

 Monographs:

 Reynolds, John (2012) – “The Fight for Freedom” (documents the Freedom School)

 Taukchiray, Wes (1980) – “Some of the Written Memory of the Natchez-Kusso Indians of

           Edisto River, 1980 

Fields Indian Family – Pine Hill Indian Community (Richland County)

Legal – SC Court of Common Pleas, Jane Huggins vs. WD Turner, et al. (1914)

WPA Survey of Colonels Creek Missionary Baptist Church     

Keepers of the Word (Dorchester County)

Little Horse Creek American Indian Cultural Center (Aiken County)

Marlboro, Chesterfield, Darlington County Pee Dee Indian Tribe

Midlands Intertribal Empowerment Group (MIEG) (Richland County)

Pee Dee Indian Tribe of Beaver Creek (Orangeburg County)

Pee Dee Indian Tribe of SC (Marlboro, Dillon, Marion Counties)

Pee Dee Nation of Upper SC (Dillon County)

Piedmont American Indian Association (PAIA) – Lower Eastern Cherokee Nation of SC

Newsletter, Crosswinds Fall 2009-

Santee Indian Organization (Orangeburg County)

Wes Taukchiray collection on the Santee Indians

Correspondence, 2005– From Chris Judge to Teresa Gore, historical Santee information

South Carolina Indian Affairs Commission (SCIAC) (Richland County)

The Sumter Tribe of Cheraw Indians (Sumter County)

Additional materials located in the Thomas J Blumer collection and NAS monograph collection

Clippings, 2013

Benenhaley, Dr. Eleazer (200?) – “An Analysis of Neophytes and Would Be Historians”

Federal Writers Project Papers (1936-1940) – “Pockets in America: The Turks in Sumter

        County, South Carolina” (attributed to Lucy G Platt)

Taukchiray, Wesley (1975) – “A History of the Turks Who Live in Sumter County, South

         Carolina, from 1805 to 1972” (includes some draft material and a photograph of

          the tombstone of Mary Ann Oxendine, 1842-1935)

The Waccamaw Indian People (Horry County) Additional materials located in Alice B Kasakoff Collection, includes article on the Dimery settlement by Forest Hazel

Graham, Tracey – “Rethinking the Notion of  Waccamaw Indians (Student essays from

        Horry-Georgetown Technical College)

Legal – SC Court of Common Pleas, Order upon Binding Administration, 11 Apr. 2014 Publications:

        Email South Carolina Indian Voice, 2008-2011

        Newsletter The  Waccamaw Village News, 2006-     

      

Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians (Berkeley County)

Wes Taukchiray Collection on the Varnertown Tribe of the Wassamassaw

 Marshall, Martha B. (1900) – “Stories from the Mission Field: In the Pinelands of

         South Carolina” (Indian children at the St. Barnabas Mission School)

South Carolina Native Americans – General (materials may cover more than one group)

Depratter, Chester B (1993) – “Yamasee Indian Towns in the South Carolina Lowcountry,

      1684-1715”

Howard, James H (1960) – “The Yamasee: A Supposedly Extinct Southeastern Tribe

      Rediscovered”

Rainsford, Bettis C. (2004) – “The Chickasaw Indians of South Carolina”

Schohn, J. Michelle (n.d.) – “History of the Pee Dee Indian People of South Carolina”

Schohn, J. Michelle and Melinda E Hewlett (1996) – “History of the Pee Dee Indian People of

       South Carolina (Chronology)

Smith, Elizabeth (1925) – “An Analysis of a “Croatan” Community (Marlboro County)

Spivey, Michael (2000) – Native Americans in the Carolina Borderlands: A Critical

      Ethnography, 2000 (book) (Pee Dee Indians)

Steen, Carl (2012) – “An Archaeology of the Settlement Indians of the South Carolina

       Lowcountry

Steen, Carl (2005) – “Does the 1737 Coachman Plat Depict Land at Four Holes, SC?”     

Southeastern Native Americans

Blanton, Dennis Bruce (2012) – “The Inalienable Rite: Smoking Ritual During the Mississippian

       Stage in the South Appalachian Mississippian Region”

Goddard, Yves (2004) – “Endangered Knowledge: What We Can Learn From Native American

         Languages 

Updated February 16, 2016 by Archivist Brent Burgin