Occaneechi Indian Village

Enjoy authentic Native American food, dance, crafts, demonstrations, and traditions at the Indian village.

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• Storytelling of the North Carolina Native Americans Cherokee, Lumbee and Occaneechi storytellers share their tales.
• Archaeology and the Ancient History of North Carolina Uses images of artifacts, maps, and artwork to accompany brief overviews of the movements of American Indians as they made their way to North Carolina.
• 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.

Related pages

• Intrigue of the Past: Teach your students about North Carolina's fascinating past. This edition contains lesson plans about the fundamental concepts, processes, and issues of archaeology, as well as essays for the teacher with detailed information about four periods in North Carolina's ancient history.
• 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.
• The Tom Little Museum: See artifacts from life in Anson County in the past, from farming and carpentry to toys and even arrowheads.

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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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