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The Catawba Indians

By. Sidney Williams and Noe Baltazar

211/09/2009 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com; All Rights Reserved.

History

• From the earliest time period the Catawba were also known as Esaw, or Issa.

• They were classed as distant stock by Gallatin in 1836.

• The Catawba and the northern tribes were long in a state of warfare.


Where did they live?

• The Catawba lived at the Catawba River near the North and South border extending west to Broad River.

This is the location of where the Catawba lived.


Shelter

• Their shelter was a round, bark-covered dwelling with a fireplace in the center, and a opening in the roof to release the smoke.


Catawba Language and Foods

• The Catawba spoke a language called Siouan language.

• They fished, hunted, and farmed.• They ate corn, beans, squash, a variety of

fresh water fish, and deer.


Interaction With Colonists

• The Catawba gained firearms through trade and the Colonists gained an ally.


Peace between the two

• They never had conflict or war they just helped each other.


Peace Pipes

• They Catawba made peace pipes, which are ceremonial smoking pipes. They traded these pipes with the Colonist and other nations.


The Columbian Exchange

• The Columbian Exchange is a very important event for the history of culture. It was the widespread trade of food, plants, animals.

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Diseases of the Columbian exchange

• Diseases such as small pox, syphilis, malaria, yellow fever, measles, and cholera devastated the Catawba Indians.

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Maps

1737

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The Catawba Today

This is the Catawba Indian Nation today located in Rock

Hill.

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