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- Title
LOOKING FOR INDIAN TOWN: THE DISPERSAL OF THE CHOWAN INDIAN TRIBE IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA, 1780-1915.
- Authors
Hazel, Forest
- Abstract
The Chowanoke, or Chowan, were an Algonkian tribe that lived along the Chowan River in northeastern North Carolina when first encountered by the English in the late 1500s. Over the next two centuries, the tribe maintained its distinct social identity and by the early 1700s the Chowan were settled on reserved land in what is now Gates County. With the sale of its last communal land in 1821, the tribe ceased to exist as a social unit, though tribal members and their descendants continued to live in the area. In this paper I trace Chowan settlement history, land ownership, and genealogy from the latter years of the reservation into the twentieth century, focusing on their now-forgotten community just southeast of Gatesville that was known as Indian Town.
- Subjects
GATES County (N.C.); CHOWAN River (N.C.); NORTH Carolina; ALGONQUIANS (North American peoples); FEDERALLY recognized Indian tribes; NATIVE Americans; HUMAN settlements; GROUP identity; NORTH Carolina state history; HISTORY; NATIVE American history
- Publication
North Carolina Archaeology, 2014, Vol 63, p34
- ISSN
1546-797X
- Publication type
Article