num_pages: 375
description: This landmark work chronicles through primary sources the Native American experience in North Carolina from the earliest European explorations in the late 16th century through the last decades of the 18th century. Documents in the volume are drawn from journals and other personal accounts, the correspondence of both private citizens and government officials, land grants and deeds, court records, acts of the Assembly, reports and correspondence of government agencies involved in Indian affairs, records of the Executive Council, newspapers, governors’ papers, records of the Moravians, Church of England records, and the laws of North Carolina. General subjects presented through the sources are folkways, religion, trade, land (possession and dispossession), war, interaction with North Carolina society, and reservations.
language: English
title: Native Americans in Early North Carolina: A Documentary History
publisher: North Carolina Office of Archives and History