Catawba

Catawba
a) A Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas.

There was a Catawba brave who took some pottery <!brackets in the original to trade for bows and arrows. This chief had a beautiful daughter, and the Catawba brave fell in love with her, and she likewise fell in love with him. When the Catawba brave left, she asked her father for a bow and arrow. She shot it in the air in the direction the brave went, and then she went to get it. She kept shooting it in the air until she caught up with him.

b) The language of this people.

Cornwallis finally moved after Morgans men. Left behind to cover the fords and delay the British, North Carolina general William Lee Davidson and a few men were killed as the British poured across Cowans Ford. Once the British crossed the Catawba, the Americans had to get past another river, the Yadkin beyond Salisbury.

Syn: Iswa, Issa, Esaw

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