Local history at OCPL

Search the collection Search

Native peoples 970.004, 975.6004: 12 titles as they stand on the shelf at OCPL, in call-number order. North Carolina history bookshelf, E-1: North Carolina histories of every kind, from the university and the State Fair to the state’s natural history and Durham’s Hayti.

• To Die Game: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerrillas of Reconstruction Evans, William McKee · 1971

  Henry Berry Lowry and his band of Lumbee guerrillas raided plantations and eluded posses in Robeson County through Reconstruction, after the execution of Lowry's father and brother in 1865; their fight ended in 1872, when Lowry vanished after a raid on Lumberton. W. McKee Evans tells their story in this history, published by Louisiana State University Press in 1971; 282 pages with maps and portraits.

  Call number NC 970.004 EVA View in OCPL catalog →
• Tracing Ancestors Among the Five Civilized Tribes: Southeastern Indians Prior to Removal Lennon, Rachel Mills · 2002

  A research guide by Rachal Mills Lennon, a certified genealogist, for tracing Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Seminole ancestors in the Southeast before the removals of the 1830s. It describes the federal records by topic and by tribe and adds a long bibliography. Genealogical Publishing Company, 2002, 156 pages with an index.

  Call number NC 970.004 LEN View in OCPL catalog →
• The Role of Native Americans in Military Engagements: From the 17th Century to the 19th Century 2018

  Seven essays, edited by Karen L. T. Ackermann, on Native peoples at war from the 1600s to the 1800s: the Lenape against Dutch and Swedish colonists, Mohawk fighting with New France, Governor Willem Kieft's war on the Wiechquaeskeck, the 1694 destruction of Oyster River plantation, the battle at Captina Creek, Andrew Jackson's campaigns and removal, and the St. Albert Mounted Rifles. First published in 2003; reprinted in 2018, 240 pages with maps.

  Call number NC 970.004 ROLE View in OCPL catalog →
• American Indians in North Carolina: Geographical Interpretations 1999 Foundational

  Thomas E. Ross's geographic study of American Indians in North Carolina. It examines Native peoples' history, cultural assimilation, and social and economic conditions across the state, with statistics. Published by Karo Hollow Press in 1999, eleven preliminary pages and 242 pages with illustrations and maps.

  Call number NC 970.004 ROS View in OCPL catalog →
• Index to the Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory United States · 2003

  The name index to the Dawes Commission's final rolls of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole nations, approved in March 1907. Roll by roll, beginning with the Choctaws by blood, names run alphabetically with the roll number and page that lead to each entry, and lists of errata and corrections come first. First printed in 1907; reprinted in 2003, 634 pages.

  Call number NC 970.004 UNITED View in OCPL catalog →
• The Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory United States · 2003

  The Dawes Rolls: the final enrollment of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole nations of Indian Territory, made by the Dawes Commission so that tribal land could be allotted, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior by March 4, 1907. Citizens by blood and freedmen, African Americans once enslaved in the nations and their descendants, are listed nation by nation with roll numbers. First printed in 1907; reprinted in 2003, 633 pages.

  Call number NC 970.004 UNITED View in OCPL catalog →
• First on the Land: The North Carolina Indians Wetmore, Ruth Y. · 1975

  Ruth Y. Wetmore's account of North Carolina's Indian peoples from about 10,000 B.C. to 1975, written for secondary school students. It covers the Algonquians of the coast, the Iroquoian Tuscarora and Cherokee, and the Piedmont Siouans, with their daily life, beliefs and ceremonies, and the Cherokee, Lumbee, Tuscarora, Haliwa, Coharie and Waccamaw Siouan communities as they stood in the 1970s. John F. Blair published it in 1975, with maps and a bibliography.

  Call number NC 970.004 WET View in OCPL catalog →
• The Saura and Keyauwee in the Land That Became Guilford, Randolph, and Rockingham Arnett, Ethel Stephens · 1975

  Before Guilford, Randolph and Rockingham counties were formed, their land was home to the Saura and the Keyauwee, two Native peoples whose history Ethel Stephens Arnett traces. The explorer John Lawson found the Keyauwee on Caraway Creek, in present Randolph County, in 1701. Published in Greensboro in 1975; 92 pages with illustrations, a bibliography and an index.

  Call number NC 970.1 ARN View in OCPL catalog →
• The Cherokee Removal, 1838: An Entire Indian Nation Is Forced Out of Its Homeland Fleischmann, Glen · 1971

  Written for young readers, Glen Fleischmann's account of the Cherokee Nation's forced removal from its Southeastern homeland in 1838, the march remembered as the Trail of Tears. He describes Cherokee life and culture, the events leading up to removal, the arguments over whether it had to happen, and what it cost the people. Franklin Watts published it in 1971 as a Focus book; 88 pages with maps, facsimiles and portraits.

  Call number NC 970.3 FLE View in OCPL catalog →
• Occaneechi-Saponi Descendants in the North Carolina Piedmont: the Texas Community Hazel, Forest · 1991 Start here

  Forest Hazel's 1991 study of the Occaneechi-Saponi descendants living in the Texas community of Orange County, near Mebane, tracing the families of that settlement. It concerns Occaneechi genealogy and Indians of North America in North Carolina. A starting point for anyone researching the county's Indigenous families.

  Call number NC 970.4 HAZEL View in OCPL catalog →
• Red Carolinians Milling, Chapman James · 1969

  Chapman J. Milling's history of the Indian peoples of the Carolinas in the colonial period, with South Carolina at its center, first published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1940. This second edition, with a foreword by A. S. Salley, came from the University of South Carolina Press in 1969; 438 pages with illustrations, facsimiles, portraits and a bibliography of some seventeen pages.

  Call number NC 970.4 MIL View in OCPL catalog →
• The American Indian in North Carolina Rights, Douglas L. · 1947 Influential in its time

  Douglas L. Rights's account of the Native peoples of North Carolina, first published by Duke University Press in 1947; 296 illustrated pages with references. His preface sets out to show how the state's Indians lived, to identify the tribes, and to trace where they moved. John F. Blair issued later editions, and a 1988 Winston-Salem printing appeared as a Wachovia Historical Society publication.

  Call number NC 970.4 RIG View in OCPL catalog →