Acknowledgement
We humbly give homage to the tribes who first inhabited North Carolina prior to white colonization. The Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation that resided in Chapel Hill, and the west and north west regions, before the University of NC at Chapel Hill was built. As well as the tribal communities that resided across all the ‘small’ and large towns of NC prior to colonization: The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Sappony, Catawba, Tuscarora, Waccamaw Siouan, Lumbee, Coharie, Halawa-Saponi, and Meherrin.
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