Tuscarora

[ tuhs-kuh-rawr-uh, -rohr-uh ]

noun

, plural Tus·ca·ro·ras, (especially collectively) Tus·ca·ro·ra.

1. a member of an Indian people living originally in North Carolina and later, after their admission into the Iroquois confederacy, in New York.
2. an Iroquoian language, the language of the Tuscarora people.

Tuscarora

/ ˌtʌskəˈrɔːrə /

noun

1. -ras-ra a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in North Carolina, who later moved to New York State and joined the Iroquois
2. the language of this people, belonging to the Iroquoian family

Example Sentences

Their totem was that of the serpent, and their name is not altogether unlike the Tuscarora name of this animal usquauhne.

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Lederer travelled with a Tuscarora (Iroquois) interpreter, who gave them their name in his own tongue.

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Captain Sanglier here and Arrowhead, this brave Tuscarora, have both informed me that this unfortunate boy is the traitor.

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"The Tuscarora was as venemous in his blow as a rattler, though he failed to give the warning," continued Pathfinder.

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The Tuscarora, not the Mohawk, was the tribe migrating from the South.

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