Learn about Tuscarora of eastern NC with A&T prof Smallwood at Asheboro library

Dr. Arwin Smallwood

ASHEBORO – So compelling are the North Carolina history talks by Dr. Arwin Smallwood of N.C. A&T State University that the Asheboro Public Library keeps inviting him back for more.

Smallwood will return with “The Tuscarora of North Carolina” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, at the library. The in-person program is free and the public is invited.

The talk will follow the lives of the Tuscarora and other native people in the state up to the mid-1800s. A group welcoming of all people (they absorbed the Lost Colony), the Tuscarora experienced a diaspora following the Tuscarora War that spread them around North Carolina, the eastern United States, Canada and the Caribbean.

An expert on the history and development of Native American, African American and European cultures in the eastern part of the state, Smallwood is professor and chair of the Department of History and Political Science at N.C. A&T. He is a native of Bertie County.

Last month, he received the Gov. James E. Holshouser Jr. Award for Excellence in Public Service from The University of North Carolina Board of Governors, one of the top two annual faculty awards in the UNC system. Smallwood is the first N.C. A&T staff member chosen for the award.

The Asheboro library is located at 201 Worth Street.