Occaneechi Indian Village in Hillsborough
A reconstruction of a traditional Occaneechi village.
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- Lesson plan: Language families Students will identify and locate the three language families of contact period North Carolina and calculate the physical area covered by each language family.
- Excavating Occaneechi Town: Archaeology Of An Eighteenth-Century Indian Village In North Carolina An archaeological site report that includes thousands of images and a tool called Electronic Dig which allows students to design their own research strategies and re-excavate Occaneechi Town.
- 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: A comprehensive study of North Carolina Indian tribes Students will apply their research skills of gathering and validating information to study the eight state-recognized American Indian tribes of North Carolina in order to create an Honors U.S. History Project.
Related pages
- Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology: Learn what it was like to grow up an Indian in the southwestern United States or find out about the processes used in discovering how the ancient people of the Yadkin River Valley lived at this anthropology museum at Wake Forest University.
- Lake Waccamaw Depot Museum: Take a field trip to the Lake Waccamaw Depot Museum and learn about the history and people of Columbus County.
- Museum of the Cherokee Indian: Official site of the museum of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.
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- Learn more about American Indians, North Carolina, Orange County, ancient people, anthropology, artifacts, cultures, historic site, history, and indigenous.
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An excavation of Occaneechi Indian Village, an eighteenth-century Indian settlement can be found in Hillsborough. It has become a rich source of information about how native Americans lived before the British colonized the area. The village has been reconstructed with a palisade or stockade fence, huts, cooking site and sweat lodge, just as it was in the general area during the late 17th century.
To schedule a visit, call (919) 304-3723
See Excavating Occaneechi Town: Archaeology Of An Eighteenth-Century Indian Village In North Carolina.
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