Tuscarora in a sentence

Sider, Gerald M. Living Indian Histories: Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolina, UNC Press, 2003, Preface; xiv In 2006 the Skaroreh Katenuaka Nation, "AKA: Tuscarora Nation of Indians of North Carolina", filed a federal lawsuit for recognition.

These unjust laws included land leases that stated when the Tuscarora either went extinct or moved off the land entirely, that the reservation lands would revert to the ownership of the state.

After that, the Tuscarora in New York no longer considered southern remnants as part of their nation.

After the migration was completed in the early 18th century, the Tuscarora in New York no longer considered those remaining in North Carolina as members of the tribal nation.

Although the Nottoway language is extinct, linguists have been able to determine that it was distinct, although closely related to Tuscarora.

Although without a reservation, some Tuscarora descendants remained in the southern regions of the state.

As of 2010, several bands in Robeson County have united on an interim basis as the Tuscarora Nation One Fire Council.

As the British were chasing the surviving residents out of town, a small force of Tuscarora natives intervened and stopped the pursuit, buying enough time for the locals to escape to safer ground.

Both colonies agreed to consider as friendly only those Tuscarora who accepted Blount's leadership.

In 1712, this force attacked the southern Tuscarora and other nations in Craven County at Fort Narhontes, on the banks of the Neuse River.

In 1763 and 1766 additional Tuscarora migrated north to settle with other Iroquoian peoples in Pennsylvania (where the Susquehannock and Erie people both had territory) and New York.

In 1802 the last Indian Woods Tuscarora negotiated a treaty with the United States, by which land would be held for them that they could lease.

In 1831 the Indian Woods Tuscarora sold the remaining rights to their lands.

In the 1700s, the Tuscarora left the Southeast and "returned" to the New York area by 1722 because of harsh warfare in the southern region.

Many Tuscarora and Oneida sided with the colonists.

New York leaders consider any individuals remaining in North Carolina as no longer having tribal status, although they have Tuscarora genetic ancestry.

Other historians hold that, judging from linguistic and cultural data, the Tuscarora people migrated South from other Iroquoian-speaking people in the Great Lakes region in ancient times.

Since the late 20th century, some North Carolina remnants have formed bands in which they identify as Tuscarora.

Stormalong was said to be a sailor and a giant, some 30 feet tall; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the Tuscarora, a ship so tall that it had hinged masts to avoid catching on the moon.

The colonists transported some Tuscarora to Pennsylvania to sell into slavery.