Indian Museum of the Carolinas

This Native American museum features the Indians of the past, present day Indian groups and Indians of North America.

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• Native American Nations Find dozens of websites on tribes and nations of Indians of North America from the Abenaki, Alaskan Natives, Cherokee, Hawaiian Natives, Lumbee, and the Tuscaora.
• Lesson plan: Artifact classification Students will use pictures of artifacts or objects from a teaching kit to classify artifacts and answer questions about the lifeways of a group of historic Native Americans.
• Lesson plan: Shadows of North Carolina's past Students will infer past Native American lifeways based on observation, construct a timeline of four major culture periods in Native American history, and compare these lifeways and discuss how they are different and alike.
• Lesson plan: Pottery traditions Students will learn how Indian people of North Carolina made and used coiled pottery, summarize why archaeologists study pottery, and make and decorate a replica of a North Carolina coiled pot.

Related pages

• Museum of the Cherokee Indian: Official site of the museum of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.
• Mountain Gateway Museum: A trip to the Mountain Gateway Museum in Old Fort gives students a look into the past and helps them understand the importance of preserving local and regional history.
• The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History: This regional museum strives to collect, preserve, and interpret the natural, historic and artistic heritage of this "back country region at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains."

Related topics

• Learn more about American Indians, North Carolina, Scotland County, ancient cultures, arts, crafts, folklore, history museums, indigenous people, and storytelling.

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"The Indian Museum of the Carolinas seeks to increase public awareness of past and present native cultures and to further research archaeology in North and South Carolina. Emphasis is placed on the early Indians of the southeastern United States including the Cherokee, Coharie, Tuscarora, Waccamaw-Siouan, Catawba, and Lumbee, although exhibits feature artifacts and information from other parts of the country and Mesoamerica. The permanent collection contains over 200,000 artifacts, some more than 10,000 years old, and features pottery, tools and weapons, jewelry and costume, a dugout canoe, and contemporary art."

The museum is located at 607 Turnpike Road in Laurinburg. The telephone number is (910) 276-5880. Admission is free.

See the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction documentary Cherokee: The Principle People and Indian, A Person, Myself.

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