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The Catawba, also known as Issa, Essa or Iswä but most commonly Iswa (Catawba: Ye Iswąˀ ' people of the river '), [3] are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans, known as the Catawba Indian Nation. [4] Their current lands are in South Carolina, on the Catawba River, near the city of Rock Hill.
The Catawba Indian Reservation is a 600-acre piece of land purchased by the Catawba Peoples in 1850, located in the community of Catawba. This reservation is the only Indian reservation that is federally recognized in the state of South Carolina. As of 2011, there are 2,800 members of the reservation. The Reservation offers childcare, a housing ...
The Catawba Indian Nation’s South Carolina reservation near Rock Hill and Charlotte has never been accessible to outside businesses — until now. For the first time, banks are invited to work ...
King Hagler (also spelled Haiglar and Haigler) or Nopkehee (c. 1700–1763) was a chief of the Catawba Native American tribe from 1754 to 1763. Hagler is known as the "Patron Saint of Camden, South Carolina." [1] [2] He was the first Native American to be inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame. [3]
A former longtime land partner in the Catawba Indians’ $700 million North Carolina casino has sued the tribe over trespass and property damage claims. In its lawsuit, Kings Mountain Land ...
Lawsuit: The tribe has “run roughshod” over the developer’s land by “wrongfully” removing dirt and fill, crushing rock to convert into road material.
The "Tract of Land of Fifteen Miles square" was the Catawba's sole reservation, having ceded to the British the entirety of the rest of their claim to North and South Carolina in 1760 and 1763. [4] By 1840, nearly all of the Catawba reservation had been leased to non-Indians. [5]
The Wateree were a Native American tribe in the interior of the present-day Carolinas. They probably belonged to the Siouan-Catawba language family. First encountered by the Spanish in 1567 in Western North Carolina, they migrated to the southeast and what developed as South Carolina by 1700, where English colonists noted them.