The Tuscarora ("hemp gatherers") are a Native American people of the Iroquoian-language family, with members in New York, Canada, and North Carolina. They originated in western New York, in the traditional area of the Iroquois. Prior to the arrival of Europeans in North America, they had settled in the region now known as Eastern Carolina. The most numerous indigenous people in the area, they lived along the Roanoke, Neuse, Taw (Torhunta or Narho...
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The Tuscarora ("hemp gatherers") are a Native American people of the Iroquoian-language family, with members in New York, Canada, and North Carolina. They originated in western New York, in the traditional area of the Iroquois. Prior to the arrival of Europeans in North America, they had settled in the region now known as Eastern Carolina. The most numerous indigenous people in the area, they lived along the Roanoke, Neuse, Taw (Torhunta or Narhontes), and Pamlico rivers in North Carolina. They first encountered Europeans in North Carolina and Virginia.
After the 18th century wars of 1711-1713, most of the Tuscarora left North Carolina and migrated north to New York and Pennsylvania, over a period of 90 years. They aligned with the Iroquois in New York, because of their ancestral connection. They were sponsored by the Oneida and made one of the Six Nations in 1722. After the American Revolution, in which they and the Oneida allied with the colonists, they shared reservation land with...
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