A recent Lunch at the Library presentation from Brooke M. Bauer, who discussed her new book, Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540–1840 (The University of Alabama Press, 2022).
Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540–1840 is the first book-length study of the role Catawba women played in creating and preserving a cohesive tribal identity over three centuries of colonization and cultural turmoil. Bauer, a citizen of the Catawba Indian Nation of South Carolina, weaves ethnohistorical methodologies, family history, cultural context, and the Catawba language together to generate an internal perspective on the Catawbas’ history and heritage in the area now known as the Carolina Piedmont.
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