Taukchiray, Wes, 1948-

Wes Taukchiray (a.k.a. Wes White) is an ethnohistorian and the author of numerous publications about the Indians of North America and the Southeast, including monographs on the Catawba, Natchez, and Kussoe; in 1969 Wes White (b.1948) began studying the Four Holes Indian community (Dorchester County, S.C.) in an attempt to identify the historical predecessors of the present-day Indian groups in the area and has since done research on many other Indian groups. In 1982 White became the main researcher for Indian Law Unit of the Lumbee River Legal Services in Lumberton, N.C. In 1988 he changed his name to Taukchiray, meaning "white" in the Catawba language.

Wes Taukchiray (a.k.a., Wes White) is an ethnohistorian and the author of numerous publications about the Indians of North America, including monographs on the Catawba, Natchez, and Kussoe.