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"Double Voting" in Robeson County: A Reminder of an Unequal Past

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. At one time, double voting was acceptable in Robeson County. Double voting meant that some people had two votes but others had only one vote. Find out how American Indians fought against and eliminated this unfair political practice. This article appeared in the Fall 2004 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

"Respect and Encourage the Individual": Learning among the Lumbee

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. American Indians have different views about learning and teaching. Learn about their education traditions. This article appeared in the Spring 1997 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

"The difference is about our land": Cherokees and Catawbas

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Many people characterize the American Revolution as a war fought between the British and the American colonists. However, another group of people, the American Indians, participated in the war. In North Carolina, the Cherokee and the Catawba ultimately supported the side that they thought would best ensure the protection of their tribal lands. This article examines the actions of these two American Indian groups in North Carolina during the American Revolution. This article originally appeared in the Fall 1992 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

A Class All Their Own: American Indians in Antebellum North Carolina

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. The Cherokee Indians in the antebellum period started to adopt certain aspects of “white” civilization including separation into family units as opposed to clans and modifying their government in order to avoid further relocation. Some North Carolina Cherokee lived lives closely akin to poor whites while other isolated themselves in the mountains. This article originally appeared in the Fall 1996 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

A Conversation with Artist Joel Queen

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Joel Queen, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, is known for his traditional pottery. He comes from a family of potters and basket weavers and he works in many different mediums, including wood and stone carving. This article appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

A Different Kind of Exploration: William Bartram and Science in the 1700s

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. While North Carolina's general outline, rivers, and American Indian population had been "discovered" by the early eighteenth century, much of the region's plant life and its uses remained unknown to the colonists. Botanists such as father and son John and William Bartram collected and studied plant life and documented their findings. William Bartram eventually became a much-respected artist and author of Travels through North and South Carolina, [and] Georgia.This article appeared in the Fall 2007 Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

A Look at Stickball

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. American Indians in what is now the southeastern United States, including the Cherokee, often played stickball, an early version of lacrosse. This article appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

A Look at the Cherokee Language

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. The Cherokee language is a part of the Iroquois language family. Today around 22,000 people speak Cherokee, and efforts are being made to teach the language to a new generation. This article appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

A Look at the Trail of Tears

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Starting in 1838 the United States government forcibly removed thousands of Cherokee from their homes east of the Mississippi River. Many died on the long journey to their new home in Oklahoma, but around a thousand people escaped and remained in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. This article appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Activities

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Activity utilizing the map published in John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina, published in 1709. This article appeared in the Fall 2007 Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

American Indian Storytelling

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. American Indian storytellers relate lively tales that help preserve the precious cultural heritage of their communities. This article appeared in the Spring 2002 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

American Indians in North Carolina

Virtual Field Trip. Explore the fascinating history and contemporary culture of North Carolina's American Indian communities. Students will learn and share information about the state's tribes through small group activities, video clips, and touch objects.   details

American Indians in North Carolina

Video, Online. Explore the fascinating history and contemporary culture of North Carolina's American Indian communities. 10 minutes   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

American Indians in North Carolina, Past and Present

Professional Development, Online. Get to know the state's American Indian tribes. Examine some of these groups within the contexts of education, work, government and politics, language, and the arts. The workshop will pay particular attention to today's eight state-recognized tribes. Advance registration is required. Courses are offered periodically throughout the year.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Arrivals in the East: Settlement of the Coastal Plain, 1650 to 1775

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Read how the Coastal Plain of North Carolina was settled. Learn who immigrated to North Carolina and what conditions discouraged immigration. This article appeared in the Spring 1995 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Assigned Places

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. What did Jim Crow laws mean for North Carolina's African Americans? Read how segregation visibly affected daily life in the Tar Heel State. This article appeared in the Spring 2004 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Celebrating Thousands of Years in a Single Day

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. The goal of the 10th annual American Indian Heritage Celebration, held at the North Carolina Museum of History, was to build awareness of American Indian heritage and culture. Demonstrations of traditional crafts were held, a traditional longhouse was built on the grounds of the State Capitol, and other activities and events took place. This article appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Cherokee Basketry

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. There are four main stages to making a basket in the Cherokee tradition. This article appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Civil Rights in North Carolina: A Change Is Gonna Come

Professional Development, Online. Explore civil rights in North Carolina through an interactive online teacher workshop filled with valuable information and ideas for teaching. The first three sessions focus on the experiences of African Americans and American Indians in the state from 1830 to 1980. In each of these sessions, a history of civil rights is interspersed with detailed articles on an event, an issue, and a biography of a person important to the period. In the fourth session, you’ll explore the history of civil rights activism of other groups in North Carolina. The last session investigates the current and future state of civil rights. An interactive time line and oral histories are included.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Colonial North Carolina

History-in-a-Box. Geography played a major role in the settlement patterns of colonial North Carolina. Explore colonial family life and learn about the cultures of four groups that settled in the state’s three regions. Examine reproduction artifacts, play with toys, and listen to period music. Learn about clothing, housing, cooking, education, and trade. This project was made possible through the support of the North Carolina Society Daughters of the American Revolution.   details

Communities of Faith: American Indian Churches in Eastern North Carolina

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. In North Carolina, following the Civil War, the government passed laws segregating public facilities by race. Restrooms, theaters, and schools were divided for “white” and “colored” people, but American Indians did not consider themselves “colored,” a term used to mean African American. Many American Indians formed their own churches to separate and preserve their distinct racial and cultural identity. This article appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Contemporary Migration in North Carolina

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Until the mid-1990s, more people migrated out of than into the state. Between 1980 and 1990, North Carolina had a net in-migration of 374,954 people. Find out what has caused this population tilt, or reversal of past trends. This article appeared in the Spring 1995 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Dancing through History with the Warriors of AniKituhwa

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. The modern Warriors of AniKituhwa perform traditional Cherokee dance at community events. Their dance is modeled on historical research and is meant to preserve cultural traditions in an ever-changing world. This article originally appeared in the Fall 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Discovering What Native North Carolinians Ate

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Archaeologists learn about the diet of American Indians who lived in North Carolina prior to European contact by studying the plant and animal remains present at archaeological sites. From these remains, archaeologists have been able to deduce some of the foods the first North Carolinians ate. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2007 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Earliest American Explorers: Adventures and Survival

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. The New World "discovered" by Europeans was actually settled much earlier by American Indians who--based on archaeological evidence--may have been on the continent for fifty thousand years. European contact brought major changes to Indian life--devastating diseases, culture shifts, and even slavery--but despite it all, Indian culture adapted and survives today. This article appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of Tarl Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Escape Through the Great Dismal Swamp

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. A land of opportunity awaited Virginia's freed or escaped indentured servants and Quakers in Carolina--just beyond the 2200 square-acre Great Dismal Swamp. This article appeared in the Fall 2007 Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Everybody's War: North Carolina and World War II

History-in-a-Box. Everyday life changed during World War II as families were separated, food and goods were rationed, and travel and pleasure driving were curtailed. North Carolinians from the mountains to the coast helped the war effort by volunteering, by salvaging and conserving, by growing Victory gardens, and by buying war bonds. Use the scrapbook of memories; the stories of North Carolinians; and objects, images, and words of the period to teach about the changes that this war brought to our state.   details

Excavating Joara and Fort San Juan

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Archaeologists discovered the remains of the American Indian town of Joara in 1986. American Indian and Spanish artifacts, including the remains of five burned buildings thought to have housed Fort San Juan and its soldiers, are located on twelve acres in Burke County. This article appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Expanding to the West: Settlement of the Piedmont Region, 1730 to 1775

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Discover how North Carolina's backcountry was settled. Who used the Great Indian Trading Path and the Great Wagon Road? Examine immigrants to the backcountry and learn their reasons for migrating to that area. This article appeared in the Spring 1995 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Explorers Are You: Tar Heel Junior Historians, Pigs, and Sir Walter Raleigh

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Like Christopher Columbus, Hernando de Soto, Juan Pardo, and Sir Walter Raleigh, Tar Heel Junior Historians are explorers. Early explorers influenced life in North Carolina as countries like Spain and England sought to increase in both power and wealth. This article appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Facts and Fiction: Looking for the Colonists

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. While stories abound about the possible fate of the 1587 Lost Colonists, little archaeological evidence remains to definitively reveal what happened. And why did colonies at Roanoke Island fail so quickly, when others such as Jamestown did not? This article appeared in the Fall 2007 Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Fast Facts about American Indians

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Did you know that American Indians introduced pumpkins, chili, and squash to Europeans? This is just one fast fact included in the Fall 2005 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Finding a Lost Fort (North Carolina's Real First Colony)

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. According to archaeological and written evidence, Spain, not England, established the first European settlement in North Carolina. In 1567 the native town of Joara became the site of Captain Juan Pardo's Fort San Juan. American Indians burned the fort in May 1568. This article appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

First Immigrants: Native American Settlement of North Carolina

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Discover what archaeologists have learned about the origins and everyday lives of American Indians in North Carolina. Find out how European settlement pushed Indians westward, sparking conflicts. This article appeared in the Spring 1995 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

From Earth and Fire: North Carolina Pottery

History-in-a-Box. Create interdisciplinary lessons and encourage students to connect with history! Watch the video From Earth and Fire: North Carolina Pottery and use pieces of pottery and historical photographs to learn math, language arts, and science. This project was made possible through the support of the North Carolina Humanities Council and the North Carolina Arts Commission.   details