Learn about some of the contributions and facets of Native American culture.

For more information about the various tribes, visit the Native American Heritage collection.

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Learn about some of the contributions and facets of Native American culture.

For more information about the various tribes, visit the Native American Heritage collection.

Cherokee Alphabet | History of SC Slide Collection
Cherokee Alphabet | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 12

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The title page and first page of hymns, "Cherokee Hymnbook," printed in Philadelphia, for the American Baptists Publication Society around 1820. The Cherokee were a highly organized society, and early...
The Pee Dee and the Europeans | Periscope
The Pee Dee and the Europeans | Periscope
Episode 2

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Diseases brought by the Europeans killed great numbers of the Pee Dee Indians. Despite this problem, they traded deer skins and formed alliances with the new colonists. During the Revolutionary War...
Catawba Then & Now | Periscope
Catawba Then & Now | Periscope
Episode 3

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The Catawba still use the river their ancestors used for hunting, fishing, and clay. Riverbottom clay is used to make traditional Catawba pottery. Pottery is an important tradition that has been...
Native American Culture | Periscope
Native American Culture | Periscope
Episode 3

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The histories of Native Americans in South Carolina also have much in common. Beginning in the early 1500s, European colonization meant disease, enslavement and loss of land for most Indian people...
Tradition: Anetsa | Periscope
Tradition: Anetsa | Periscope
Episode 17

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Tradition: Anetsa The game of Anetsa, or stick ball, is played at many Cherokee festivals. Anetsa has been played for hundreds of years. It was traditionally played to settle disputes or for spiritual...
Cherokee Syllabary | Periscope
Cherokee Syllabary | Periscope
Episode 16

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In 1821, George Guess, a full-blooded Cherokee also known as Sequoyah, invented the Cherokee "syllabary." The syllabary allowed the Cherokee to read and write in their own language. Sequoyah's written...