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Catawba Nation
People ID: 1445
Type: ethnic group

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- UPDATED: 10.14.2025
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Iswa, Iswä, Issa, Essa, People of the River
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A Wandering Tribe: Dispersal of the Catawba Nation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
The Catawba Nation
Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540-1840
Catawba Nation: Treasures in History
The Catawba Indians: The People of the River
We Are All Catawba: Complete Genealogy of My Daddy’s Catawba Ancestors
The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal
The Catawba Indian Nation of the Carolinas
mentions:
Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal
Melungeon Voices S5 E2 – “Generations: An Indigenous Exhibit”
The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People
Melungeon History and Myth
The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies
Through the Back Door: Melungeon Literacies and Twenty-First Century Technologies
Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Commission
Red, White & Black: The Peoples of Early North America
The Melungeons: The Pioneers of the Interior Southeastern United States 1526-1997
The Last Conquistadors of Southeast North America: Pedro Menéndez and the Collapse of La Florida’s Frontier
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