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A comprehensive study that traces the craft of pottery making among the Catawba Indians of North Carolina from the late 18th century to the present. When Europeans encountered them, the Catawba Indians were living along the river and throughout the valley that carries their name near the present North Carolina-South Carolina border. Archaeologists later collected and identified categories of pottery types belonging to the historic Catawba and extrapolated an association with their protohistoric and prehistoric predecessors. In this volume, Thomas Blumer traces the construction techniques of th

Pottery craft --- Catawba Indians --- Catawba pottery --- Pottery making (Handicraft) --- Ceramics --- Handicraft --- Kataba Indians --- Indians of North America --- Siouan Indians --- Pottery, Catawba --- Pottery, American --- Industries. --- Themes, motives. --- Pottery

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This book provides a new conceptual framework for understanding how the Indian nations of the early American South emerged from the ruins of a precolonial, Mississippian world. A broad regional synthesis that ranges over much of the Eastern Woodlands, its focus is on the Indians of the Carolina Piedmont - the Catawbas and their neighbors - from 1400 to 1725. Using an 'eventful' approach to social change, Robin Beck argues that the collapse of the Mississippian world was fundamentally a transformation of political economy, from one built on maize to one of guns, slaves and hides. The story takes us from first encounters through the rise of the Indian slave trade and the scourge of disease to the wars that shook the American South in the early 1700s. Yet the book's focus remains on the Catawbas, drawing on their experiences in a violent, unstable landscape to develop a comparative perspective on structural continuity and change.

Mississippian culture --- Chiefdoms --- Catawba Indians --- Kataba Indians --- Indians of North America --- Siouan Indians --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Political anthropology --- Temple Mound culture --- Mound-builders --- Kings and rulers. --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- Antiquities --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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This study reveals how Catawba settlement aggregation, refugee incorporation, and political coalescence affected the scale of interaction networks and communities in the lower Catawba River valley. It also defines the crucial strategies employed in response to food security crises, daily life, and the roles of both men and women. This study highlights the double-edged nature of strategies available to American Indian groups seeking to maintain political autonomy in early colonial period contexts.

Catawba Indians --- Indians of North America --- Kataba Indians --- Siouan Indians --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- History. --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Catawba River Valley (N.C. and S.C.) --- Catawba Valley (N.C. and S.C.) --- Antiquities.