The Catawba Indians are aboriginal to South Carolina; and their pottery tradition may be traced to 2;400 B.C. When Hernando de Soto visited the Catawba Nation (then Cofitachique) in 1540; he found a sophisticated Mississippian Culture. After the founding of Charleston in 1670; the Catawba population declined. Throughout subsequent demographic stress; the Catawba supported themselves by making and peddling pottery. They have the only surviving Native American pottery tradition east of the Mississippi. Without pottery; there would be no Catawba Indian Nation today.
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