Years ago a colleague sent professor Stephen Criswell a clip of Today Show’s Meredith Vieira interviewing President Barack Obama. Criswell, who heads the Native American Studies program at the ...
For as far back as 2,000 BC, mothers in the Catawba Indian tribe have been using special techniques to craft unique pieces of hand-made pottery, passing down its traditional methods from generation to ...
Four students gathered in a small out-building converted into a classroom and began rolling clay. It took them less than a half-hour to mold the clay into a bowl depicting a snake coiling itself ...
Near the foothills of Appalachia, just south of the South Carolina-North Carolina line and a few miles from Andrew Jackson State Park, the Catawba Indians want the world to know they are alive and ...
Non-Catawba tribe members work on the reservation, too, and visitors are welcome. Those stopping by the reservation will find a cultural center featuring free exhibits outlining the history of the ...
On a hot July Saturday I drove to the Native American Studies Center in Lancaster, South Carolina. First chance I got, I abandoned I-20 for U.S. 21. Near Great Falls, boulders burst from the ground ...
The biggest misconception about the Catawba Indian Nation may be that it still exists at all, Travis Blue said while looking up from his pottery. "There have been history books written that said we ...
Tribute to King Hagler, inductee into SC Hall of Fame by members of the Catawba community. King Hagler was the first Native American to be inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame and this video ...