Coharie: an Indian school system granted in 1911, pulled in 1913 (Sampson County, NC)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1911 · Places: Carolinas
SUMMARYCoharie: an Indian school system granted in 1911, pulled in 1913 (Sampson County, NC) [Connections: Carolinas, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDNCpedia (Ansley Herring Wegner, 2018): a subscription school for Indian children began in the region in 1859. In 1911 the General Assembly "gave the Coharie their own, separate school system" and "withdrew permission for the system in 1913," reauthorizing it four years later after the tribe organized a government and published a tribal history. East Carolina Indian School (1943–1965) served seven counties. State recognition came in 1971
PATTERNThe legislature granted and then took back the Coharie's status as Indians for school purposes, so whether they were "Indian" on paper changed with the legislature
LENS (WW9)Indian one session, not Indian the next: the paper changed while the people stayed the same
OPENFind why the 1913 legislature withdrew it (petitions or racial challenges?) and census labels for Coharie families