Coastal Carolina Indian Center

Editor

By

Coastal Algonquian Language Sampler

The following is a sampling of the Coastal Algonquian language that was translated by Dr. Blair A. Rudes at the request of Coastal Carolina Indian Center in 2006. We’re thankful to Dr. Rudes for his assistance with this project. We are saddened by his unexpected passing in 2008 — not only by the loss of a dear friend — but also that we have lost the opportunity to learn from further work he intended to do on the Carolina/Virginia Algonquian language. [Read more…] about Coastal Algonquian Language Sampler

By

Tuscarora Ascendancy

This article which appeared in the October 1982 issue of The North Carolina Historical Review, was written by Dr. Thomas Parramore (former Meredith College professor and one of the most knowledgeable and thorough historians to have ever written about the Indians of eastern North Carolina.) This piece is frequently cited for its in-depth information on the wide-spread influence of the Tuscarora nation in North Carolina in the colonial period. [Read more…] about Tuscarora Ascendancy

By

Letter from Governor Dobbs to North Carolina General Assembly in regards to pending “French-Indian War”

A message from His Excellency Arthur Dobbs, Esq; Captain-General and Governor in Chief, in and over his Majesty’s Province of North-Carolina. To the General Assembly, held at Newbern, the twelfth day of December, 1754. [Proposing] a plan of union with all the British Colonies, for our mutual future defence [Newbern Printed by James Davis, 1754].

[Read more…] about Letter from Governor Dobbs to North Carolina General Assembly in regards to pending “French-Indian War”