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