Catawba people
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The Catawba, also known as Issa, Essa or Iswä but most commonly Iswa, are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans, known as the Catawba Indian Nation. Their current lands are in South Carolin
A Catawba, 1901
Catawba at The Corn Exposition 1913, Rock Hill, South Carolina
The Catawba women are well known in the Carolinas for their pottery.
A Catawba family in 1908 South Carolina.
Cherokee
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The Cherokee people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their ancestral homelands, living in town
Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee syllabary, as painted by Henry Inman, c. 1830
Great Smoky Mountains
After the Anglo-Cherokee War, bitterness remained between the two groups. In 1765, Henry Timberlake took three Cherokee chiefs to London meet the Crown and help strengthen the newly declared peace.
Portrait of Major John Norton (Mohawk chief) as Mohawk Chief Teyoninhokarawen by Mather Brown, ca. 1805. Yale Center for British Art (his father was a Cherokee while John Norton adopted by the Mohawks)