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The Catawba Indians: The People of the River

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- UPDATED: 6.29.2025
- populations
- history, culture
author:
Douglas Summers Brown
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date:
1966
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400
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Douglas Summers Brown. The Catawba Indians: People of the River. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1966.
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Brown 1966
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