Tuscarora
noun
a member of an Indian people living originally in North Carolina and later, after their admission into the Iroquois confederacy, in New York.
Tuscaroras
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pluralof Tuscarora.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Tuscaroras, Madame said from the words she overheard as they slipped past where we hid.
From Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Randall Parrish
