Indigenous Peoples of North Carolina: Cherokee and Coharie
Eastern Band of Cherokee
Published Monographs
Crews, C. Daniel and Richard W. Starbuck, editors. Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees. Tahlequah, Okla.: Cherokee National Press, c2010. C284.6 R311c v.1
Mails, Thomas E. The Cherokee People: The Story of the Cherokees from Earliest Origins to Contemporary Times. Tulsa: Council Oak Books, 1992. FC970.03 M22c
Mooney, James. Historical Sketch of the Cherokee. A Smithsonian Institution Press Book. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1975. C970.03 M81h
Perdue, Theda. The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. New York: Viking, 2007. C970.03 P43c3
Ross, Thomas E. American Indians in North Carolina: Geographic Interpretations. Southern Pines, N.C.: Karo Hollow Press, 1999. See chapter four, “The North Carolina Cherokee,” pp. 77-102. C970.01 R826a
Journal and Newspaper Articles
Cherokee One Feather. Weekly newspaper published in Cherokee, N.C. by the Tribal Council of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, 1969 – present. FC970.03 C52e
Journal of Cherokee Studies. Published in Cherokee, N. C. by the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, 1976 – present. C970.03 C52
The Cherokees by ISBN: 0791079953Publication Date: 2004-08-30The Cherokees are one of the largest Indian tribes in the United States. They are often noted for establishing a republican form of government and an 84-character written alphabet to preserve their language.
The Cherokee Removal by ISBN: 0312415990Publication Date: 2004-08-18The Cherokee Removal of 1838–1839 unfolded against a complex backdrop of competing ideologies, self-interest, party politics, altruism, and ambition. Using documents that convey Cherokee voices, government policy, and white citizens’ views, Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green present a multifaceted account of this complicated moment in American history. The second edition of this successful, class-tested volume contains four new sources, including the Cherokee Constitution of 1827 and a modern Cherokee’s perspective on the removal. The introduction provides students with succinct historical background. Document headnotes contextualize the selections and draw attention to historical methodology. To aid students’ investigation of this compelling topic, suggestions for further reading, photographs, and a chronology of the Cherokee removal are also included.
The Cherokee by ISBN: 1555466958Publication Date: 1989-01-01An overview of the history of this tribe is given plus a glimpse of the federal regulations that now govern its existence.
Archival Resources
Bushyhead Family Collection, 1980s-2016
The Bushyhead Family Collection consists of materials relating to the Cherokee language project created by Robert H. Bushyhead and Jean L. Bushyhead Blanton, of Cherokee, N.C. There are audiocassettes, videotapes, and handwritten and typed preschool through twelth grade curriculum materials; notes related to the development of the preschool Cherokee language curriculum in reservation child care facilities; unpublished Cherokee and English language dictionaries; supporting project documentation; biographical materials and clippings about Cherokee language preservation; and miscellaneous items.
Sharlotte Neely Collection on the Snowbird Cherokee Indian Community, 1971-1974
The collection of anthropologist Sharlotte Neely (1948-) contains recordings on open-reel audiotape of musical groups performing at the 1974 Trail of Tears Singing held by the Snowbird Cherokee Indian community in Graham, N.C. Cherokee groups from both North Carolina and Oklahoma featured at the Singing include Lossey Quartet, Snowbird Indian Quartet, Grand State Gospel Four, and the Littlerocks. The 1974 recordings contain interviews in the Cherokee language with Snowbird tribal council members Ned Long, Mose Waschacha, and Jim Jumper and with Gilliam Jackson, the first college graduate from Snowbird. Field notes with narrative description accompany the recordings. Also included are a 1973 recording of the Third Sunday Monthly Singing at Zion Hill Baptist Church in Graham County, N.C., and a 1971 recording of a Cherokee language lesson for children conducted by Goliath George. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Coharie
General Resources
Berde, Stuart. Coharie Reemergence: Attaining Religious and Educational Freedom in Eastern North Carolina 1850c – Present. [Pembroke, N.C.]: Lumbee River Legal Services and the Coharie Intra-Tribal Council, 1984. 80 pp. C970.03 B48c
Berde, Stuart. Nowhere to Hide: A Theoretical and Documentary Quest in to Coharie Indian History. [Pembroke, N.C.]: Lumbee River Legal Services and the Coharie Intra-Tribal Council, 1984. 161 pp. C970.03 B48n
Berde, Stuart. Politics and Prayers: The Role of Evangelicism in Coharie Tribal History. [Pembroke, N.C.]: Lumbee River Legal Services, 1982. 69 pp. C970.03 B48p
Butler, G. E. The Croatoan Indians of Sampson County, N.C., Their Origin and Racial Status; A Plea for Separate Schools. [Durham, N.C.: Seeman, 1916]. 65 pp. Cp970.03 B98c. Also available online through Documenting the American South.
Grady, Don Avasco. “The Coharie Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina: A Collection of Oral Folk History.” M.A. Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981. 112 pp. C378 UO2 1981 GRADY, D.A.
Ross, Thomas E. American Indians in North Carolina: Geographic Interpretations. Southern Pines, N.C.: Karo Hollow Press, 1999. See chapter seven, “Coharie Tribe of North Carolina,” pp. 149-161. C970.01 R826a
Wilkins, David (Karonhiawakon). Walking Upright: The Coharie People of Sampson County. Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Research Branch, 1980. Historical Research Reports Series 1, no. 13. 113 pp. C970.03 W68w
Subject Headings
Henry Owl and UNC-CH
Henry Owl, a member of the Eastern band of Cherokee Indians, was the first Native American student to attend UNC. Owl came to Carolina in the fall of 1928 and graduated the following year with a Master of Arts in History.
Carolina Firsts: Henry Owl - blog post by University Archives staff
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians before and after the removal by Henry M. Owl, 1929.