Native Americans of Northeastern North Carolina: A Brief History

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  • Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
  • Arwin D. Smallwood, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Political Science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, will discuss the history of the Native peoples of northeastern North Carolina. He will examine the impact of wars, Whites, Africans, and neighboring Native Americans on the Native communities and families.
    The presentation will conclude with a discussion of the intermixing with Whites, African, and other Native Americans, and their forced migration to western North Carolina and beyond.
    Disclaimer:
    The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Museum of the Albemarle or the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Комментарии • 30

  • @bushhippie7372
    @bushhippie7372 2 года назад +4

    Writing a historic fiction pirate novel that involves coastal NC and my research has led me all the way to this very interesting topic!

  • @toreano3160
    @toreano3160 10 месяцев назад +2

    Who was in America before the native Americans?

  • @garyjohnson8327
    @garyjohnson8327 8 месяцев назад +2

    Um.. no we did not become Muskogee. This was wildly inaccurate

    • @charleshancock152
      @charleshancock152 3 месяца назад

      Pilahuk for this point!
      From a Monacan, with family ties to the Mattamuskeet, Tuscarora, Saponi, Nansemond, Nanticoke, Lenape, Wamponoag and various Powhatan.
      Granted, our tribal history in the ol' 13 is very intermixed.

  • @williebeale3265
    @williebeale3265 3 месяца назад +1

    Amazing info! Live on nc va border chowan River courtland va thank u so much for video ! Keep historic videos coming !

  • @janegarner6739
    @janegarner6739 4 месяца назад

    Thank you for this fascinating talk on the native peoples of your region & their connections with other native cultures before & after European arrival.
    Dr. Smallwood brought up a number of things not usually mentioned in these histories. My own ancestors in the 1600s were both English & French as well as Cherokee, with a family member in each generation passing down our history since before European arrival & after. My English & French ancestors both fled via Britain in the 1650s to the English colonies in Virginia, but these Eur. ancestors almost immediately fled the Va. colony to join the Cherokee Nation in what is now Cherokee County, N.C.
    Our family is not legally recognized by US law as Cherokee, sincr our ancestors fled their homeland when the US troops were sent by Pres. Jackson to force all Cherokees from their homeland. The legal requirements for each Indian nation today are very complicated as well as very different. But with the Cherokee, you cannot legally qualify as Cherokee unless an ancestor signed one of the rolls with the US, & none of our ancestors did so because we fled the homeland in order to avoid being taken captive by the US militaey & forced to relocate to Indian Territory.
    Quite a few Cherokees escaped the US military roundup, with some living secretly in caves in the homeland for years & with some escaping by fleeing to other regions. Well into the 20th c, there were hundreds of Cherokee communities across the southeast (& elsewhere) that were Cherokee communities in diaspora, forced by the US to declare themselves as either Black or white by the later 19th c. These communities in diaspora were usually very small & scattered out through the forests of the southeast, mostly in areas the Euro. settlers had not yet overrrun.
    I wish i could find more information on these communities in diaspora like ours, but very little has been written. Our community was called Cooterneck, which means turtle neck, because its center was at a fork in the road. When my ancestors & other fleeing Cherokees founded the community there were no "white" towns nearby, so until later in the 19th c we had many miles of old forest to live in. The thing is, if u were a Cherokee (or other Indian from the southeastern nations), u could not live freely on US territories; rather, you'd be forcibly removed to Indian Territory.
    It's a long & complex history. My family had kept our family history since long before Eur. arrival, with someone in each generation becoming the family historian & passing it down through each generation for centuries. But my family's history, which had been written down by the 1700s, became partially lost when the US along with gangs of white settlers invaded the homeland nation, often burning down the people's homes & killing the occupants or forcing them to flee. These invaders were given legal title to any Cherokee lands/homes they seized, thanks to Pres. Jackson. Our family historian's home in the Forced Removal period (1838...) was burned down by invading white settlers, with our written family history destroyed. Thus we lost most of our knowledge of our family history before the late 1700-early 1800s.
    This or similar things happened to many Cherokees during that period, resulting in the widespread dispersion of Cherokees who did not walk the forced death march to Indian Territory in 1838.
    But again, thank you for this fascinating talk by Dr. Smallwood. It helped me better understand what happened to our ancestors during the invasion by the British & then the seizure of our homeland by the US.

  • @adventureswithmarsh
    @adventureswithmarsh 11 месяцев назад +2

    You left out the peoples here before the Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Muskogean speakers… The Chicora and Duhare were the people of this land before being lost to waves of European diseases and replaced by these waves of the ones you mentioned. Why cover newcomers and not those who were here for thousands of years? Lawson and Woodward both document the changing of Native Languages in the early 1700s

  • @derek9565
    @derek9565 26 дней назад

    You’d think this “expert” would have learned how to accurately pronounce these tribe names by now…

  • @FacesintheStone
    @FacesintheStone 2 месяца назад

    I’ve been sharing and researching the stone Art of North Carolina for almost 3 years now. Academia knows nothing of the people who inhabited this land before them. I’d like to remind everybody, only been here for a little more than three people ago. Just over 200 years. We’re still actively covering up a genocide. ❤

    • @FacesintheStone
      @FacesintheStone 2 месяца назад

      I haven’t finished the lecture yet, but I hope our host mentions that many of these tribes are not federally protected, citizens gather evidence of the destruction of pyramid mounds with housing developments which are discovered and ignored by our politicians and state funded archaeologists

    • @FacesintheStone
      @FacesintheStone 2 месяца назад

      The site that we discovered is right along the Haw river.

    • @FacesintheStone
      @FacesintheStone 2 месяца назад

      35:00 it’s not just the seashells that they put images on; the library that was found in Alamance county has painted crystals with faces on it just like what you see in my avatar. I found several photo realistic examples that are undeniable unless you are a politician or a land developer.

    • @FacesintheStone
      @FacesintheStone 2 месяца назад

      46:00 the Spanish did not come first if you know history, you will know that there were several different cultures and languages spoken here in the United States, including French and Gaelic, which is Irish. There were all different types of people here, if you know history.

    • @FacesintheStone
      @FacesintheStone 2 месяца назад

      46:20 oh yeah, those evil Spanish. It’s not like we’re still covering up a genocide. See this is a problem with state and government funded archaeological professionals that they are complicit. Archaeology in the United States does not transcend the government, the government runs archaeology. Like I said, we’re still covering up a genocide. Perhaps try not to be part of the problem.

  • @doncross6697
    @doncross6697 2 года назад

    Thanks for sharing this information. Excellent!

  • @andreyarborough
    @andreyarborough 2 года назад

    Great discussion thank you

  • @vada7259
    @vada7259 2 года назад

    Thanks for featuring Dr. Smallwood - fascinating & informative

    • @FacesintheStone
      @FacesintheStone 2 месяца назад

      I Really like this guy-
      But now I have to edit it because I finished watching the video and I realize just how much of a tool this guy actually is. Started strong, but now he’s become a mouthpiece to cover up the genocide and try to pass the blame onto other people. Thank God, we came here and saved all the Indians!

  • @douglasthompson8927
    @douglasthompson8927 2 года назад

    excellent presentation..thank you

  • @arimagoo4687
    @arimagoo4687 2 года назад

    Awesome! Thank you 🙏

    • @matimus100
      @matimus100 Год назад

      Superstitious graffiti totally unnecessary here!

  • @matimus100
    @matimus100 Год назад +3

    Native Americans disgraceful title
    It's Natives in America

    • @CynthiePompey9999
      @CynthiePompey9999 10 месяцев назад +2

      You see truth. Native Americans was invented in 1970. We was called ne-gro Indians. Or America only Cooper tone skin clans.

    • @FacesintheStone
      @FacesintheStone 2 месяца назад

      @@CynthiePompey9999Shhh! We’re not supposed to talk about that! ❤