Tuscarora
Americannoun
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a member of an Indian people living originally in North Carolina and later, after their admission into the Iroquois confederacy, in New York.
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an Iroquoian language, the language of the Tuscarora people.
noun
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a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in North Carolina, who later moved to New York State and joined the Iroquois
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the language of this people, belonging to the Iroquoian family
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Addison played football at Tuscarora High in Frederick, Md., before spending the first two years of his college career at the University of Pittsburgh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2024
In upstate New York, bilingual highway signs in the languages of the Seneca, Onondaga and Tuscarora tribes border highways and their reservations.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
"One we grow is Seneca white corn, also known as Iroquois white corn or Tuscarora white corn," Nelson explains, along with Buffalo Creek squash, from the reservation of the same name.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2023
But for Tuscarora, the early season has brought an impressive level of consistency.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023
Nothing about the town was grand except the big empty sky and, off in the distance, the stony purple Tuscarora Mountains running down to the table-flat desert.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Most surviving Tuscaroras then joined their kinfolk in New York to become the sixth nation of the Iroquois Confederacy.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
The Tuscaroras of New York lost 553 acres to a reservoir in the late 1950s.
From Time Magazine Archive
For 73 hours on end, for 450 miles, a dozen Tuscaroras and two Senecas jogged in relays carrying a little chamois bag holding three white grains of corn.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was made up of the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk Nations and was later joined by the Tuscaroras.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The Tuscaroras eventually were incorporated with the Iroquois Confederation and the settlers took advantage of the removal to occupy their lands, soon spreading over a large part of what is now Craven County.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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