The Joara Excavations or Morganton, North Carolina
Everyone knows that Indian tribes occupied most of the Northern United States of America. The old Indian maps reveal a network of towns from the eastern seaboard into the Mississippi Valley. However, one thing is for sure. The settlers encountered numerous Indian tribes along their trek across the western territories. No matter how you look at it, their mounds and evidence towns were spread across the map. President Andrew Jackson caused much of the problems because, in the interest of having the Europeans establish their new civilization, Jackson preferred that no Indian evidence be left. Actually, the amount of damage done is unknown. But one thing is for sure. The Europeans crossed the plains and won the fight for the land.
Before this happened, though, the tribes were frequently at war with one another, and that is how the expansion occurred. Members of one tribe would break off and join another tribe.
The Joara Excavations
As settlers migrated across the mountain of North Carolina, certain families also expanded into the border counties of Kentucky and Virginia. A popular county of such transitions was Burke.
These survivors finally abandoned the area. Two hundred years later, European settlers came to the deserted region. As the English, Scotch-Irish, and German immigrants…
