My planter ancestors were Choctaw/Chickasaw in Tennessee and Kentucky, my Catawba ancestors just lived in South Carolina - they didn't have much stake in the war but their reservation was in the Confederacy.
Wow. Diane, I did not understand you were from a Eastern Woodland tribe!
I have read a great deal about the contact with the early colonials and the Northern tribes. Pecquot, King Phillip's war and even Joseph Brandt who tried to restrain his warriors. I have read quite a bit about the Cherokee with the Ridge and Ross wars, even after the Trail of Tears.
I have read atlases about what tribes were where, when. General Native history across the country.
I have read a little about the Osage. I can't find much.
I have read about the plains and Sioux wars of course.
I have sadly read about when Federal policy changed from fight to extermination. This after all the power was one one side. (Unlike the early colonies, when white survival was a thing)
I live 1 hour from Oklahoma and the Indian nations located there.
My sales territory used to be to a large degree in Oklahoma. I met a few partial Natives there. One was a small young man with a long ponytail who disliked me and called me "white-eye".
Are there Catawba tribes in OK? Are they functioning alone or fused in with other tribes?
Do you have a long oral history? Is there any original language left?
Were the Catawba part of the Civilized Tribes?