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Indigenous Peoples of North Carolina: Haliwa-Saponi

Honors Essays, Theses, and Dissertations

Racial Choices: The Emergence of the Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe, 1835-1971 by Marvin McCray Richardson. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016.

Challenging the South's Black-White Binary: Haliwa-Saponi Indians and Political Autonomy by  Marvin McCray Richardson. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013.

 

Journal Articles

Dane, J. K. and B. Eugene Griessman. "The Collective Identity of Marginal Peoples: The North Carolina Experience.American Anthropologist, vol. 74 no. 3 (1972), pp. 694-704.

Discusses the development of racial identity among the Haliwa and Sampson County (now Coharie) tribes, especially in the organization of churches and schools.

James, A. Everette Jr. "Claude Richardson: Haliwa-Saponi Carver." North Carolina Folklore Journal, vol. 40, no. 2 (1993), pp. 91-96. C398 N87.1

Websites and Other Resources

Official website of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe

Newspapers and Serials

Voice of the Saponi (Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe newsletter)