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17 lis 2016 · As Indians, the Catawbas suffered racial prejudice at the hands of their white neighbors that only heightened following Reconstruction and the establishment of strict racial codes in the South.
Working from theory on ethnicity and cultural transmission, this paper combines documentary and archaeological evidence in an effort to gain a clearer picture of how the Catawba maintained their identity despite intense economic and cultural pressure from Anglo-American settlers.
Indians had learned the racial realities of American life, recognized the danger of being lumped with Afro-Americans, and began to draw boundaries placing Indians and whites on one side of a racial barrier and blacks on the other.
The most important studies of white actions are William S. Willis, Jr., "Divide and Rule: Red, White, and Black in the Southeast," Journal of Negro History, XLVIII (July 1963), 157-76, and William G. McLoughlin, "Red Indians, Black Slavery, and White
Working from theory on ethnicity and cultural transmission, this paper combines documentary and archaeological evidence in an effort to gain a clearer picture of how the Catawba maintained their identity despite intense economic and cultural pressure from Anglo-American settlers.
1 lut 2010 · This book follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries later. It is a story of Native agency, creativity, resilience, and endurance.
Catawba participation in Indian slavery and the Indian slave trade took place during the colonial period, when the Catawba were still a powerful tribe. Indian slavery had significant differences from the enslavement of African-Americans: it was not based on race, was not hereditary, and was. slaveholders and as slaves themselves.
