Organizations

Lcnaf uri	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138970
Organization name	Tuscarora indians
Other names	Touscarora;Tuskara;Tuskarora;Tuskeruru
Org type	Indian group
Bio notes	An Iroquian-speaking people originally from North Carolina. After the Tuscarora War (1711-1713) against neighboring Catawba and English settlers in their homeland, the Tuscarora sent wampum belts in 1712 to their Haudenosaunee relatives requesting aid. As the Haudenosaunee were warned by the New York government to not take violent action, they agreed to adopt the Tuscarora as non-voting Confederacy members in 1722, sponsored by the Oneida. The migration took almost an entire century and followed multiple routes, occasionally stopping along the way at Tuscarora Creek in West Virginia, the Monocacy River in Maryland, and the Juniata River in Pennsylvania. The Seneca—parts of whose land became Tuscarora territory—often represented them at Grand Council meetings. During the Revolutionary War their allegiances were split, some siding with the Mohawk and British, others with the Oneida. In the aftermath, the new United States government granted their Tuscarora allies a reservation in Niagara County, New York, in 1803, while the those who sided with the British moved to Ontario, Canada.
See also	Six Nations
Citations	Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscarora_people ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscarora_Reservation