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[Identification of item], in the Arwin D. Smallwood Collection of Indian Woods (N.C.) Photographs #05316, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Arwin D. Smallwood in August 2006 (Acc. 100602)

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• Bertie County (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Indian Woods (N.C. : Township)--Photographs.
• Smallwood, Arwin D.
• Tuscarora Indians--Land tenure.

• Bart F. Smallwood Papers (#04883)
• Lewis Thompson Papers (#00716)

Arwin D. Smallwood, African American professor and chair of Department of History at North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro, N.C., was born in Windsor, N.C., and raised in Indian Woods, N.C.

During the American Revolutionary War, the colonial government granted the northern Tuscarora people 53,000 acres north of the Roanoke River in what is now Bertie County, N.C. The area came to be known as Indian Woods. Those who declined to settle in Indian Woods left North Carolina, migrated north, and settled in northern New York state, eventually joining the Five Nations of the Iroquois people. Indian Woods was the site of the first reservation for indigenous people in North America.

The collection of African American historian Arwin D. Smallwood (1965-) contains images from his research related to "Indian Woods," an area in Bertie County, N.C., that was the site of the first reservation for Indigenous people in North America. Smallwood, who grew up in Bertie County, took many of the images in the 1990s and 2000s while conducting site visits as part of his research on the northern Tuscarora people, who were relocated to the area by white colonizers during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The collection consists of images taken in Indian Woods, N.C., and numerous copy images depicting maps, documents, artifacts, and other resources collected by Smallwood while doing research on Indian Woods, N.C. Also included are images that appear to be from a 1990s era gathering of members of the Tuscarora Indian Nation, in N.Y., and copy images depicting photographs of Smallwood's extended family members.