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King Charles II of England in 1663 granted land in America to eight noblemen who had helped him regain the throne. The land was later named Carolina. Poteat discusses how the arriving colonists chose names for the places they encountered. For example, sometimes the Native American place-names were retained; towns and counties were named after a well-known persons associated with the colony; and often the name of the local Native American tribes was used.
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2.A County Name Changes by Koonts, Russell S. Tar Heel Junior Historian Vol. 44 Issue 2, Spring 2005
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Koonts discusses the interesting connection between Arthur Dobbs, the royal governor of North Carolina; James Glasgow, the first North Carolina secretary of state; and General Nathaniel Greene, the Revolutionary War hero. Present-day Greene County at one time bore the name of each man. Koonts discusses how the name changes occurred.
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Mewborn discusses the role Dr. Cartwright played in forming the Tar Heel Junior Historian Association in 1953. Dr. Cartwright was a professor at Duke University from 1951 to 1980. Previously he had served as the historian for the Military District of Washington during World War II and taught history and education at Boston University. He had been involved with a junior historian program in Minnesota.
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The State Highway Commission, forerunner of the North Carolina Department of Transportation, began naming state roads and bridges in 1917. Over four hundred highways, bridges, ferries, and other structures have been given honorary names. The list grows by fifteen to twenty names a year. The state list does not include the thousands of secondary roads and city streets that city councils and boards of commissioners have the authority to name. Bishop discusses what the NCDOT requires to consider a naming request and provides examples of what has been named.
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Samuel Spencer, a Georgia native, was the first president of the Southern Railway and one of the country's railroad leaders. Founded in 1894, the Southern Railway Company controlled over 4,500 miles of track across the South. To keep the equipment repaired, the company built a large repair shop in Rowan County in 1896 and named the location Spencer. It is the only one of North Carolina's railroad towns named for a railroad man. Turner discusses three decisions Spencer made in early life and how they affected North Carolina.
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Where the Deep and Haw rivers join to form the Cape Fear River, the town of Haywood once stood. Established in 1796, the town was named for John Haywood, who served as the state treasurer of North Carolina from 1787 to 1827. Haywood was proposed as the permanent home of the state capital, and in 1792, it was proposed as the home for the University of North Carolina. Daniels recounts the history of the town from its founding in 1796 to its demise in the20th-century.
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Native Americans have lived on what is now North Carolina around 12,000 years. The land was much different then--drier, cooler weather and different trees and plants. Porter discusses early contact with European explorers, including de Soto and Pardo. Nearly three dozen tribes have inhabited the state through the years. Today, North Carolina officially recognizes eight tribes.
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In 1971, the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs was created. The purpose of the commission is to advocate for Indian communities, tribes, and organizations, and to bring together local, state, and federal money and other resources that can help.
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North Carolina has the largest American Indian population east of the Mississippi River. The 2000 U.S. Census counts 99,551 individuals who listed as American Indians. The state recognizes eight tribes: Eastern Band of the Cherokee; Coharie; Lumbee; Haliwa-Saponi; Sappony; Meherrin; Occaneechi Band of Saponi Nation; and Waccamaw-Siouan. The federal government officially recognizes one tribe--the Cherokee.
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Joel Queen is an eighth-generation potter. Queen, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, has always been interested in arts and crafts, but has worked as an artist full-time only for the past four years. In 2005, he opened his own gallery near Cherokee to show and sell his work. Queen's creations have been displayed at the Smithsonian Institution, the British Museum in London, and at Monticello.
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La Vere recounts services rendered by the state's Native American population during World War II. On the Qualla Boundary reservation, every eligible young Cherokee man registered for the draft, and 321 eventually served in the military. Smaller tribes, like the Lumbees, also sent large numbers to the war. A number were killed or wounded, and medals including the Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Silver Star, were awarded. Native American women also served as nurses at home and near the war front, and one served as a WASP, Women Airforce Service Pilots.
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Priscilla Freeman Jacobs led the Waccamaw-Siouan, a state recognized American Indian tribe, from 1986 to 2005. She is the first woman to hold the position of chief in her tribe in the 20th-century and is the first tribal woman to become a minister. Lerch discusses Jacobs' role as tribal chief. Deciding not to seek reelection as chief in 2005, Jacobs now serves as pastor of the Life Changing Community Church in Riegelwood.
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13.A Look at the Cherokee Language by Frey, Ben Tar Heel Junior Historian Vol. 45 Issue 1, Fall 2005
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About 22,000 people speak the Cherokee language today. The language is part of the Iroquoian language family, and the Cherokee represent the only group of Southern Iroquoian speakers. Through the efforts of a Cherokee named Sequoyah, tribal members began to read and write in their own language. Relocation of a large part of the Cherokees to Oklahoma and educational prohibitions against speaking their native language caused the language to almost die out. In recent years the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina have taken steps to reclaim their language.
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Education for the state's Native Americans has come a long way since the Coharie Indians in Sampson County began a subscription school in 1859. Native Americans started schools in other counties, including the High Plains Indian School in Person County. Schools developed in the era of segregation, and it was not until 1954 that the era began to end. Programs to develop Native American teachers began in the 1920s at Pembroke State University. The state opened the East Carolina Indian School in 1942 in Sampson and Harnett Counties to help Native Americans gain a full high school education.
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After the Civil War, laws passed by the North Carolina General Assembly to retain the power of the white community divided the races between \"white\" and \"colored.\" For the state's Native American population, this posed a problem. They could not attend white churches, and they feared attending black churches would cause them to lose their identity as Indians. Their solution was to build their own churches. In the eastern part of the state, missionaries and preachers had converted many Indians to Christianity by the late 1800s. Most of the churches built were either Baptist or Methodist. By the 2000, most of the state's 100,000 Indians follow these two denominations.
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