Compelling Questions:

Was colonization a good thing? For whom?

Supporting Question 1:

What are the experiences of Indigenous people at the time of European contact?

• Without written records from the time period, how do we now about the early history of Native Americans in North Carolina?
• How might our understandings of Native American peoples be distorted by the relative lack of evidence that existed?
• Based on the best available evidence, what do we now about everyday life in various tribes in North Carolina?
• How was life impacted by the geography of the region in which these tribes lived?
• How was life impacted by European settlement?