Links We Like

To provide as much information as possible for our readers, we have started this links page to sites that may be of value to those who are researching their ancestry or the ancestry of other tribes, history, traditions, .  Some sites may have more than one link. When you send us a URL we ask that you provide a brief description of the site and the purpose.  You may use our Contact Page for submittal and we ask for a reciprocal link back.  Thanks

Archives

Anthropological

Archaeology

• Cofitachequi: Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Evidence

• Chiefly Cycling and Large-Scale Abandonments as Viewed from the Savannah River Basin

• Archaeological Study of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

• Indians, Slaves and Freedmen in the Pee Dee Region of South Carolina

• Ancestral Caddo Ceramics in East Texas (Perttula and Selden) The most distinctive material culture item of the ancestral Caddo groups that lived in East Texas from ca. A.D. 900 to the 1830s were the ceramics they made.

• Colonial Period of Archaeology at Silver Bluff Native American groups like the Cherokee and Creek were instrumental in the early economic development of the South Carolina backcountry during the colonial period. 

• A Basic Inventory of Archeological Sites in South Carolina, July 1, 1971 - Revised Edition July 1, 1972

• Clovis Macrobands in the Carolinas The recognition of Clovis in the Carolinas has largely come from statewide fluted point surveys.  Studies have focused on style, raw materials and geographic distributions.

• The 2013 Allendale Paleoamerican Expedition- Is a field program where members of the public can register for a week, or more, and help excavate one of North America's most ancient archaeological sites associated with several prehistoric chert quarries.

• SC Department of Archives & History

• Southwest Georgia Archaeological Survey - 2001-2004 (LAMAR Institute Publication #60) - From November 2001 to May 2004, archaeologists with the LAMAR Institute conducted a regional study of 14 counties in southwestern Georgia for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Historic Preservation Division (HPD), Office of the State Archaeologist (OSA).

• LAMAR Institute - Projects range from an art exhibition of contemporary Native American art to archaeological excavations at the "dead town" of New Ebenezer in the south Georgia swamp.

• University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology - All the publications listed here are in searchable Adobe Acrobat PDF format, with the size listed in megabytes after each title. We anticipate adding many new titles in the coming months.

• Mike Ruggeri’s Mesoamerica and Ancient America Lectures, Conferences and Exhibits - Museum Exhibits After Lectures and Conferences

General Purpose

• Native American Demographics
  The indigenous tribal populations of North America north of the Rio Grande River, referred to generically here as "Native Americans," a term encompassing American Indians, Inuit (Eskimo) and Aleutian Islanders.

• Various American Indian Records, by Steven Pony Hill

Historical and Cultural Sites

• SC Department of Archives and History
  A listing of places across South Carolina that celebrate Native American heritage and are open to the public. 

Libraries

• State Library of Florida
  A comprehensive list of books and publications on Ais, Apalachee, Calusa, Creek, Miccosukee (Mikasuki), Seminole, Timucua, Yemassee, and General Resources.

• The Institute for the Study of American Cultures
  The materials located in the Reading Room cover a wide range of subjects, including Pre-Columbian North America, Native Americans, and Ancient Studies. Items in the collection include monographs, periodicals, and maps.

Mailing Lists

• Creek-Southeast discussion list

• SE Creek Message board

• Creek Surnames discussion list

• AL-Indian-Tribes discussion list

• GA-Indian Tribes discussion list

• LA-Indian Tribes discussion list

• MS-Indian Tribes discussion list

• NC-Indian Tribes discussion list

• OK-Indian Tribes discussion list

• SC-Indian Tribes discussion list

• TN-Indian Tribes discussion list

• VA-Indian Tribes discussion list

• Seminole-Surnames discussion list

• NA-Newbies, for those of you are just getting started, Great place to ask questions

• Choctaw-Southeast discussion list

• Choctaw-Surnames discussion list

Mesoamerica

• Shaping Space: Built Space, Landscape, and Cosmology in Four Regions

• Medicinal and Ritualistic Uses for Chocolate in Mesoamerica

• Mesoamerica was Home of the Original Chocolate Lovers

• Ancients in Mesoamerica

Mexican History

• The Aztlan Migrations of the Nahuatl Chronicles: Myth or History?

National Parks Service

• Outline of Prehistory and History, Southeastern North America and the Caribbean
  Provides an index to Prehistory (13,000 B.C. to A.D. 1,500) Historical periods A.D 1,500 to present)

Origin

• List of Place Names in the United States of Native American Origin, at Wikipedia
  They say it is an incomplete list, but does provide several interesting names.

Slaves

• Black Slaveowners, In 1830, Phillip Barnham points out that more than 12,000 American slaves were owned by Americans who were themselves black.

States

Carolinas

• Defining Mixed-blood Indians in Colonial Virginia and the Carolinas
  Listings by person, state, county and sometimes town.  Also as to Indian, Mustee, or Mulattoe.

• Native Americans in South Carolina, by Melinda Maynor
  A report on a community of Lumbees who settled in southeast Georgia (Bulloch County) to work in the timber industry. She notes the Lumbees living here she mentions Beasley Bullard, a Lumbee born in Robeson who subsequently lived at Scott Church in 1920 (where he is censused as "Mulatto") (Maynor, Melinda M. “People and Place: Croatan Indians in Jim Crow Georgia 1890-1920” Thesis, UofF @ Chapel Hill, 2002 43 p

• Evidence grows for Jewish colonists in the Appalachians, by Richard Thornton
  The average North Carolina Cherokee carries more Middle Eastern DNA than the average Ashkenazi Jew in the United States. Not only do the Cherokees carry typical haplogroups from the Levant, but also other areas of the region.

Florida

• Aboriginal Settlement in the Apalachee Region of Florida, by Michael Wisenbaker
  This paper discusses types of archaeological sites presently found within the Woodville Karst Plain and the adjoining Tallahassee Hills, collectively known as the Apalachee Region.

• City of DeBary Archaeological Survey (PDF),
  A reconnaissance-level archaeological survey for the City of DeBary, conducted September 14, 1999. Included the identification, documentation and evaluation of known archaeological sites within the city limits.

Georgia

• Understanding the Mississippian past by Uniting Archaeology and History,ammy Consider the Mississippian period. Archaeologists conventionally date this period to AD 900-1540, and identify it with Southeastern North America. In addition, Mississippian peoples lived in ways that were similar across the Mississippian world, although there was also variation both through time and across space.

• Historic Indian Period Archaeology of the Georgia Coastal ZoneDF) by David

• This monograph attempts to synthesize what is known about the early period of European-Native American contact along the Georgia coast.

• Historic Period Indian Archaeology of Northern Georgia,(PDF) by Marvin T. Smith
  As a study of historic aboriginal sites north of the Fall Line, the present report combines three of the originally defined archaeological contexts: historic aboriginal occupation of the Ridge and Valley, Piedmont and Blue Ridge. 

• Lost Worlds
  Explores the great Native American civilizations that existed before the arrival of Europeans. 

• North Carolina Loyalists, South Carolina's loyalists in the Revolution had not been studied in any comprehensive way.

Tennessee

• Tennessee Almost went by Another Name
  Other writings by Richard

Virginia

• Defining Mixed-blood Indians in Colonial Virginia and the Carolinas
  Listings by person, state, county and sometimes town.  Also as to Indian, Mustee, or Mulattoe.

• Making Indians "White"
  The judicial abolition of Native Slavery in Revolutionary Virginia and its Racial Legacy

Traditions

Treaties

• Treaty at Galphinton, 1785

• Native American Treaties

Tribes

• Cherokee Physician
  Indian Guide to Health, a brief view of Anatomy, with general rules for preserving health without the use of medicines

• Cheraw Indians of Florida
  Connections to Reservation in Northampton County, VA, Connections to Pamunkey Indian Reservation

• Creek Indian Records, by Lance Hall
  One of the best Creek Collections of Census, Cemeteries, Civil War, Creek Wars, History, Seminole and Negro Records and much more, this is a don't miss site.

• Aacimotaatiiyankwi
  A Miami Community History and Ecology Blog

• White Wolf Pack
  Seeking Water From the Sun: Documentary Profiles Solar Water-Purification Program on Navajo Nation

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