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Catawba

1400 – present
Native nationNorth America

The 'nation of nations' of the Carolina piedmont, absorbing many Siouan remnant peoples.

Smallpox in 1759 killed nearly half; confined to the fifteen-mile-square reservation confirmed at Augusta in 1763, where they persisted.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 3 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 3 border frames for Catawba — the shape you scrub through changes in 1400 · 1760 · 1801.

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