Charles Walker Carroll collection on the Wateree Indians, 1566-1770.

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Charles Walker Carroll collection on the Wateree Indians, 1566-1770.

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All known information about the Wateree Indians of South Carolina and North Carolina was assembled by Wes Taukchiray for Charles Walker Carroll. This collection includes Taukchiray's book-length manuscript summarizing his research (323 pages; available online), annotated photocopies of published information, and related correspondence. The Wateree were the first tribe of Indians in North America known to have had a Spanish mission established on their territory. The mission was located at Guatari (pronounced Waterée) from 1566 to 1572. Sources are included through 1770, when the Wateree were last mentioned as part of the Catawba Nation. Also included are all known references to the Wateree in secondary sources dating from 1924 to 2002. A series of reports deals primarily with the archaeology of the Wateree and Yadkin rivers and dissertations. Correspondents include Ives Goddard, Senior Linguist, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution.

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College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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Taukchiray, Wes, 1948-

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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 researc...

Goddard, Ives, 1941-

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