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• A New Voyage to Carolina: Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country, Together With the Present State Thereof; and a Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro' Several Nations of Indians, Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c. (London, 1709), by John Lawson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A New Voyage to Carolina, by John Lawson (Gutenberg text)
• History of North Carolina. (Observer printing house, 1903), by John Lawson, William Byrd, and Fred A. Olds (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Carolina : containing the exact description and natural history of that country, together with the present state thereof and a journal of a thousand miles traveled through several nations of Indians, giving a particular account of their customs, manners, &c., &c (Printed by Strother & Marcom, 1860), by John Lawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural history of North Carolina. (Reprinted by authority of the Trustees of the Public libraries, 1911), by John Brickell, J. Bryan Grimes, John Lawson, and North Carolina. Trustees of the public libraries (page images at HathiTrust)
• The discoveries of John Lederer, in three several marches from Virginia to the west of Carolina, and other parts of the continent: begun in March, 1669, and ended in September, 1670, together with a general map of the whole territory which he traversed. (Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co., 1891), by John Lederer and William Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Discoveries of John Lederer: In three several Marches from Virginia to the East of Carolina, and other parts of the Continent, by John Lederer, trans. by William Talbot (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws (Philadelphia: Printed by James and Johnson, 1791), by William Bartram
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  • HTML at Evans TCP
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• Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws (Dublin: For J. Moore et al., 1793), by William Bartram
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws (second edition in London, based on the 1791 Philadelphia edition; London: Reprinted for J. Johnson, 1794), by William Bartram
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The American Indian in North Carolina (Duke University Press, 1947), by Douglas L. Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Indian in North Carolina. (J. F. Blair, 1957), by Douglas L. Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cherokees at the crossroads. (Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina, 1960), by John Gulick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Edwards Bros., 1931), by Thomas Harriot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The natural history of North Carolina. (Reprinted by authority of the Trustees of the Public libraryies, 1911), by John Brickell, J. Bryan Grimes, John Lawson, and North Carolina. Trustees of the Public Libraries (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Carolina, containing the exact description and natural history of that country, together with the present state thereof and a journal of a thousand miles traveled through several nations of Indians, giving a particular account of their customs, manners, &c., &c. (Printed for W. Taylor [etc.], 1860), by John Lawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lawson's History of North Carolina, containing the exact description and natural history of that country, together with the present state thereof and a journal of a thousand miles traveled through several nations of Indians, giving a particular account of their customs, manners, etc., etc. (Garrett and Massie, 1937), by John Lawson, Frances Latham Harriss, and National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of North Carolina (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Clements Library Associates, 1951), by Thomas Hariot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural history of North-Carolina. With an account of the trade, manners, and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c. (Printed by James Carson. For the author, 1911), by John Brickell, J. Bryan Grimes, John Lawson, and North Carolina. Trustees of the Public Libraries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indians of North Carolina. (U.S. G.P.O., 1966), by United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural history of North-Carolina. With an account of the trade, manners, and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c. (Reprinted by authority of the Trustees of the public libraries, 1911), by John Brickell, J. Bryan Grimes, John Lawson, and North Carolina. Trustees of the Public Libraries (page images at HathiTrust)
• The aborigines and the colonists (Century Co.], 1883), by Edward Eggleston (page images at HathiTrust)
• British policy towards the American Indians in the South, 1763-8. (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1918), by Clarence Edwin Carter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Indian races of North and South America : comprising an account of the principal aboriginal races, a description of their national customs, mythology, and religious ceremonies, the history of their most powerful tribes, and of their most celebrated chiefs and warriors, their intercourse and wars with the European settlers, and a great variety of anecdote and description, illustrative of personal and national character (Dayton and Wentworth, 1853), by Charles De Wolf Brownell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traces of the Indian in Piedmont North Carolina (D.L. Rights?, 1924), by Douglas L. Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on condition and tribal rights of the Indians of Robeson and adjoining counties of North Carolina (U.S. G.P.O., 1915), by O. M. McPherson and United States. Dept. of the Interior (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minor topics, an extraordinary Indian town (A. S. Barnes, 1887), by Oliver P. Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of the life of John Marrant, of New York, in North America : with an account of the conversion of the king of the Cherokees and his daughter. (J. Gadsby and R. Groombridge, 1850), by John Marrant and W. Aldridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Copy of a letter from Benjamin Hawkins (s.n., 1801), by Benjamin Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resolutions of the legislature of North Carolina relative to the provision of a permanent home for the Indian tribes (G.P.O.], 1849), by North Carolina. General Assembly, Rob. B. Gilliam, and United States. Congress 1848-1849). House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cherokee Indians in North Carolina : letter from the Secretary of War in reply to a resolution of the House of Representatives of 21st ultimo, calling for information respecting the number of Cherokee Indians now residing in North Carolina, &c. (T. Allen, Print., 1839), by United States. War Dept, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Thomas Hartley Crawford, and United States. Congress 1838-1839). House (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural history of North Carolina. (Johnson Pub. Co., 1968), by John Brickell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia (Bey Johann Wechel in velegung Dieterich Bry, 1590), by John White, Thomas Hariot, and Theodor de Bry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Condition and tribal rights of the Indians of Robeson and adjoining counties of North Carolina (G.P.O., 1914), by O. M. McPherson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cherokee Indians, North Carolina : hearing before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs ... Eighty-fourth Congress, first session pursuant to H. Res. 30, to authorize the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to make investigtions into any matter within its jurisdiction, and for other purposes. September 17, 1955. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1955), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of John Arch, a Cherokee young man. (Massachusetts Sabbath School Society. Depository no. 13 Cornhill, 1836), by John Arch, Christopher C. Dean, and Massachusetts Sabbath School Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The discoveries of John Lederer in three several marches from Virginia to the west of Carolina and other parts of the continent begun in March, 1669 and ended in September, 1670 : together with a general map of the whole territory which he traversed / collected and translated out of Latine from his discourse and writings, by Sir William Talbot, Baronet. (London : Printed by J.C. for Samuel Heyrick ..., 1672), by John Lederer and William Talbot (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Notes on the Indian burial mounds of eastern North Carolina (J.A. Holmes?, 1882), by J. A. Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peachtree mound and village site, Cherokee county, North Carolina (U.S. G.P.O., 1941), by Frank M. Setzler, T. D. Stewart, and Jesse D. Jennings (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anthropological bibliography of North Carolina (Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1974), by David Sutton Phelps, North Carolina. Division of Archives and History. Archaeology Section, and North Carolina Archeological Council (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Myths of the Cherokees (Printed at the Riverside Press, 1888), by James Mooney (page images at HathiTrust)

• To provide federal recognition for the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina : hearing before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, on H.R. 2335, Lumbee Recognition Act, hearing held in Washington, DC, September 26, 1989. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decision U.S. Court, Cherokee timber case (G.P.O., 1897), by United States. Court of Appeals (4th Circuit), D. L. Boyd, and United States Office of Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historical sketch of the Indians who inhabited the eastern part of North Carolina from 1524 to the present time (C. Benjamin Richardson], 1857), by Frederic Kidder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on condition and tribal rights of the Indians of Robeson and adjoining counties of North Carolina (U.S. G.P.O., 1915), by O. M. McPherson and United States. Dept. of the Interior (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mattamuskeet documents : a study in social history (Archaeology Section, Division of Archives and History, Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1975), by Patrick H. Garrow and North Carolina. Division of Archives and History. Archaeology Section (page images at HathiTrust)

• Provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of Cheraw Indians of North Carolina : joint hearing before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, and the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, on H.R. 1426, Lumbee Recognition Act, and S. 1036, Lumbee Recognition Act : hearing held in Washington, DC, August 1, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and United States Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Carolina Indian Voice (1977-2005) (partial serial archives)

• The Indian Gallows, and Other Poems (New York: E. Walker, 1846), by W. H. Rhodes
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  • multiple formats at archive.org

• History of the old Cheraws; containing an account of the aborigines of the Pedee (Reprint Co., 1965), by Alexander Gregg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the old Cheraws; containing an account of the aborigines of the Pedee, the first white settlements, their subsequent progress, civil changes, the struggle of the revolution, and the growth of the country afterward, extending from about A. D. 1730 to 1810, with notices of families and sketches of individuals (The State Company, 1905), by Alexander Gregg and John Julius Dargan (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the old Cheraws : containing an account of the aborigines of the Pedee, the first white settlements, their subsequent progress, civil changes, the struggle of the revolution, and growth of the country afterward ; extending from about A. D. 1730 to 1810, with notices of families and sketches of individuals (Richardson and Company, 1867), by Alexander Gregg (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the old Cheraws; containing an account of the aborigines of the Pedee, the first white settlements, their subsequent progress, civil changes, the struggle of the revolution, and growth of the country afterward (The State company, 1905), by Alexander Gregg and John Julius Dargon (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the old Cheraws: (Richardson and company, 1867), by Alexander Gregg (page images at HathiTrust)

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