#catawba

[unteriors]

Sunrise Beach Road, Catawba, North Carolina.

[vintagepipemen]

David Setzer, head of public relations at Catawba College, 1977.

[thecitynative]

An old pic I had in my previous tumblr, I was juat let go from a job I worked @ for 10 years. I started dancing again and had met this girl, we started dating and traveling, and we went down south to Catawba Pow-Wow, where we met up with her people and I got to visit with some of mine. It was a fun weekend cuz I placed. 🤑🤑🤑

[kimberly40]

"May morning

I rise early to greet your cool mist

Broken soon by the sun's face

Lighting your grace

May morning

Your bright hue is refreshing

Waltzing in after gentle spring showers

Having kissed your flowers

May morning

How quickly you pass from us

Slipping quietly through summer's soft portal

Grieving both angel and mortal"

~'May Morning,' by The Homespun Wife

(Pictured is the Catawba River in Marion, North Carolina in McDowell County)

[numberjuantravels]

Catawba Falls is one of North Carolina's most beautiful waterfalls and a must-see for nature lovers and outdoor enthusiasts. This stunning waterfall, located in the Pisgah National Forest, is a popular hiking destination with a well-marked trail that leads visitors through lush forests, over streams, and past rocky outcroppings. The trail is moderately difficult but accessible to hikers of all skill levels, making it ideal for families and groups.

The sound of rushing water grows louder as you hike along the trail, and before you know it, the majestic Catawba Falls appears. The waterfall cascades down a series of large boulders and rocks, creating a spectacular natural spectacle that will leave you speechless. The surrounding landscape is equally beautiful, with towering trees, vibrant wildflowers, and an abundance of wildlife.

If you're going to Catawba Falls, wear comfortable shoes and bring plenty of water and snacks. The trail can be slippery in some places, so proceed with caution. When you arrive at the waterfall, take some time to enjoy the natural beauty and take some photos to remember your trip by. Overall, visiting Catawba Falls is a truly unforgettable experience that should be on the bucket list of every nature lover.

[fictionalred-photos]

Catalba tree

[millipedereads]

Yaupon: a quick linguistics rabbithole

Time for a niche linguistics post. Join me through a stumble though some etymological weeds.

Yaupon (scientific name: Ilex vomitoria) is a species of holly, growing in the coastal plains from Virginia to Texas, and is the only plant native to North America that contains caffeine (other than the closely related I. casine which has a smaller range south of yaupon's in Florida and nearby Caribbean islands as well as a lower percentage of caffeine). If you google it, you're given the factoid that there are 4 caffeinated holly species- which also doesn't include I. casine- the others growing in South America (yerba maté (I. paraguariensis), guayusa (I. guayusa), and té o’ maté (I. tarapotina). Despite my love of tea, coffee, and tisane, I've not had yerba maté and can't give you a comparison of the flavors.

Yaupon was used by Indigenous groups in the southeast for medicinal and ceremonial uses, and would induce vomiting, which gives it its Latin name vomitoria. Ilex is the genus for holly, but in Latin it referred to a species of oak whose leaves superficially look similar to holly (in size, are evergreen, have spines; or is better to say that holly looks superficially like the so-called 'ilex'? the one rabbithole I did not descend into...yet).

It's common name is taken from the Catawban word yą́pą [jãpã], where yą- is tree and pą is leaf, possibly implying a high status for the plant to get such a generalized name. Colonists would have been introduced to this plant early on, as it's a plant given to acknowledge and welcome guests.

Catawban is a Siouan language - considered extinct since the death of the last fluent native speaker in 1959. The endonym for Catawbas is Ye Iswąˀre [je iswãʔre] (or "yeh is-WAH h’reh," as per the Catawba Nation website), meaning 'people of the river,' particularly the Catawba river between the present-day Carolinas. Their name has also been transcribed as Issa, Iswa, and Esaw. The name Catawba itself comes from katapu, which is the fork of a river. There is a program under the Cultural Center of the Catawba Nation to support revitalization and maintenance at https://catawbalanguage.org/ that you can also check out.

All the other nations and tribes in the Souian language group on the East coast also only have extinct languages among them, though they have their own efforts at compiling dictionaries and so on. Living Siouan languages include but aren't limited to Apsáalooke (Crow), Dakhóta, Lakhota, Quapaw, and Hocąk (Ho-Chunk).

Aforementioned I. casine takes its name from the Timucua work for yaupon. The Timucua were multiple groups that spoke languages within the same language family in present-day North Florida, but the name was taken from the French recording of an exonym of one of the chiefdoms for another. I. casine's common name is dahoon holly. Dahoon itself has unknown etymological origins, don't know what's up with that.

Though uncaffeinated, other holly species have also been used for tisane elsewhere. In China, a common ingredient of 苦丁茶 (kǔdīngchá / Kuding Tea / Bitter Nail Tea) is I. kaushue, a holly grown in the south. This scientific name is not from Latin but its Chinese name 扣樹 (in standard Mandarin: kòushù, in Cantonese: kau3syu6).

Yaupon's name in Chinese is 代茶冬青. 冬青 is the word for holly while the most sense I can make of 代茶 is 'stands in for tea,' perhaps a way of translating tisane.

[hittheclubstep]

[ljgreenhope]

Marami ang bungkos at malalaki ang butil ng Catawba grapes. Red Cardinal umusbong na.

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[mothmiso]

Blue Ridge Parkway Early June (2) (3) by Craig Wililams

Via Flickr:

(1) View from Wolf Mtn Overlook. (2) Catawba Rhododendron, view from Graveyard Fields Overlook. (3) Distant view of Looking Glass Mtn from Pounding Mill Overlook.     

[southernsolarpunk]

Check this out! Now do this for the rest of the tribes in South Carolina

[chaoticdesertdweller]

Catawba Valley, Virginia

📸 DJF

[faguscarolinensis]

Rhododendron catawbiense / Catawba Rhododendron at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[mlucerophotography]

Catawba Falls Trail

Near Old Fort, North Carolina. June 2024. Photos by M. Lucero.