Native American Heritage

Native American Heritage Month is celebrated from November 1 through November 30 each year.

November

Native American Heritage Month is celebrated from November 1 through November 30 each year. What began as a day of honoring the first Americans became a full month in 1990 when President George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating November as "National American Indian Heritage Month. Other variations of the month-long celebration include "Native American Heritage Month" and "National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month."

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Spotlight 1
Spotlight
Episode 1

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

The Hagood Mill Historical site occasionally serves as a gathering place for Native American people in the upstate. With its operating grist mill typical of 18 th -19 th century America, and newly...
What is Natural? | A Natural State 2
What is Natural? | A Natural State
Episode 2

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The natural world pervades nearly every aspect of the Catawba pottery tradition. Nature-inspired motifs include the turtle, frog, black snake, snail, feather and palm leaf, and are often connected to...
Spotlight | A Natural State 1
Spotlight | A Natural State
Episode 1

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Catawba pottery is recognized as one of the oldest and purest traditional art forms in America. Potters such as Billie Anne McKellar, a fourth generation potter, are often ancestors of a long line of...
Firing the Clay | A Natural State 5
Firing the Clay | A Natural State
Episode 5

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

"Green" pots are those that have dried naturally by sun and air circulation, but have yet to be fired. A sunny, windless day is the ideal setting for the day of a firing. Before firing, green pots are...
Artifacts | A Natural State 8
Artifacts | A Natural State
Episode 8

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Grades: 1 4 5 8

Artifacts are manmade objects, sometimes referred to as material remains, that are recovered during the excavation process. Pot shards, intact pots, rubbing stones and arrowheads are examples of...
Curio Cabinet | A Natural State 6
Curio Cabinet | A Natural State
Episode 6

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Many traditional Catawba pot designs are based on a basic "cooking pot" style, dating back to the Woodland period (1000 BCE - 1000 CE) of North American pre-Columbian culture. Widespread use and trade...
Petroglyphs 5
Petroglyphs
Episode 5

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Hundreds, possibly thousands, of years of weathering and erosion rendered the Hagood Mill site petroglyphs invisible to the naked eye. Amateur archaeologist Mike Bramlett discovered several of the...
Catawba Cultural Center | A Natural State 7
Catawba Cultural Center | A Natural State
Episode 7

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Maintaining Catawba tradition involves passing down family histories, belief systems, language, folklore, the arts and other aspects of cultural heritage. The Catawba Cultural Preservation Project...
Bean Pot | A Natural State 9
Bean Pot | A Natural State
Episode 9

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The bean pot is a traditional form that resurfaced in the Catawba potter’s repertoire in the early 1990s. Master potters used an image from an anthropological record of the early 1900s to guide their...
Petroglyphs 4
Petroglyphs
Episode 4

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Rock art at the Hagood Mill site is open to many interpretations. Is the imagery sacred, documentation of historic events, part of a simple amusement, or of a larger pictographic language? The answer...
Petroglyphs 2
Petroglyphs
Episode 2

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The stone outcrop at the Hagood Mill Historical site contains prehistoric rock art as well as a few not-so rare messages likely carved in the 19th or 20th centuries. Archaeologist Tommy Charles...
Petroglyphs 3
Petroglyphs
Episode 3

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Archaeologists reconstruct past lives by collecting and examining evidence such as tools, art objects and other material signs of culture. Finding the meaning behind the petroglyphs is the next step...