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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."

Within this Collection

Collection Catawba
Catawba

The Catawba (people of the river) are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans, known as the Catawba Indian Nation.

Collection Cherokees
Cherokees
Collection Chicora
Chicora
Collection Edisto Natchez-Kusso
Edisto Natchez-Kusso
Collection Pee Dee
Pee Dee
Collection Santee
Santee
Collection Sewees
Sewees
Collection Tuscarora/Iroquoian Tribe
Tuscarora/Iroquoian Tribe
Collection Varner Town
Varner Town
Collection Waccamaw
Waccamaw
Content Type
Firing the Clay | A Natural State 5

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Firing the Clay | A Natural State
Episode 5
"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

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Artifacts | A Natural State
Episode 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

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Curio Cabinet | A Natural State
Episode 6
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

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Petroglyphs
Episode 5
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

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Catawba Cultural Center | A Natural State
Episode 7
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...
Artifacts | A Natural State - Episode 8 Bean Pot | A Natural State 9

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Bean Pot | A Natural State
Episode 9
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

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Petroglyphs
Episode 4
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

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Petroglyphs
Episode 2
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

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Petroglyphs
Episode 3
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...