Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

By Her Hands: Catawba Women and Survival, Civil War through Reconstruction

By Her Hands: Catawba Women and Survival, Civil War through Reconstruction By Her Hands Catawba Women and Survival, Civil War through Reconstruction n. n. augusté Some Indians would walk to Columbia [South Carolina, approximately sixty-eight miles from Catawba Indian lands]. Just the women would go. Grandma told me that they'd put the pottery on their backs and went on. -- Furman Harris During the Senior Powwow in late spring of 2008 I found myself soaking in an elder's voice; Beckee Garris whispered strong, capturing my ear, teaching me that the Catawba women hold the key to their nation's survival. It was not until much later, after considerable time and effort poring over primary documents such as interviews, genealogies, and other archival materials in the T. J. Blumer Archival Collection, that I began to understand what she meant: the Catawba, or The People of the River--the only federally recognized Indian group in the state of South Carolina--survive because of their women; these female potters gave their hands, their backs, their minds, their whole bodies for their people. My intention in this piece is to retell the Catawba women's narrative of survival from the Civil War through Reconstruction, around 1860­1880. It was within these critical twenty years that Catawba women literally http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Native South University of Nebraska Press

By Her Hands: Catawba Women and Survival, Civil War through Reconstruction

Augusté, N. N.
Native South , Volume 2 (1) – Feb 6, 2009
Download PDF
16 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/university-of-nebraska-press/by-her-hands-catawba-women-and-survival-civil-war-through-j5GcvRkzF8

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Copyright
Copyright © University of Nebraska Press
ISSN
2152-4025
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

By Her Hands Catawba Women and Survival, Civil War through Reconstruction n. n. augusté Some Indians would walk to Columbia [South Carolina, approximately sixty-eight miles from Catawba Indian lands]. Just the women would go. Grandma told me that they'd put the pottery on their backs and went on. -- Furman Harris During the Senior Powwow in late spring of 2008 I found myself soaking in an elder's voice; Beckee Garris whispered strong, capturing my ear, teaching me that the Catawba women hold the key to their nation's survival. It was not until much later, after considerable time and effort poring over primary documents such as interviews, genealogies, and other archival materials in the T. J. Blumer Archival Collection, that I began to understand what she meant: the Catawba, or The People of the River--the only federally recognized Indian group in the state of South Carolina--survive because of their women; these female potters gave their hands, their backs, their minds, their whole bodies for their people. My intention in this piece is to retell the Catawba women's narrative of survival from the Civil War through Reconstruction, around 1860­1880. It was within these critical twenty years that Catawba women literally

Journal

Native South – University of Nebraska Press

Published: Feb 6, 2009

There are no references for this article.