Record #:

2301

Author(s):

Claggett, Stephen

Abstract:

Before English colonists arrived, Native Americans had lived in the state 12,000 years. Thirty tribes totaling 100,000 occupied the state in the late 1500s, but colonial wars and diseases rapidly decreased that number to 20,000 in 1800.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Spring 1995, p3-7, il

Subject(s):

Indians of North America--First contact with Europeans; Indians of North America--Wars; Pee Dee Indians--North Carolina--Antiquities

Record #:

10747

Author(s):

Jarett, Calvin

Abstract:

Daniel Kanipe, born 1853, in McDowell County, enlisted in Troop C, 7th U.S. Cavalry at Lincolnton in 1872. While stationed at Yankton, South Dakota, he was under the command of General George Custer during the pursuit of Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Big Horn. Discovering the vast encampment of Indians, Custer dispatched Sergeant Kanipe with orders for Captains McDougall and Benteen to return at once with their respective companies. Kanipe, avoided the fate of his fellow soldiers and lived to fight in the 1878 campaign against the Northern Cheyennes. Kanipe worked for the U.S. Revenue Department and during World War I, Governor Bickett commissioned him captain of the 19th Company.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 37 Issue 23, May 1970, p9-10, il, por

Subject(s):

Indians of North America--Wars; Kanipe, Daniel A., 1853-1926; Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876