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Tuscarora|tʌskəˈrɔːrə|
[Iroquois, = hemp-gatherer.]
An Iroquoian people, originally inhabiting Carolina, which, after moving to upper New York State, joined the Iroquois Confederacy of North American Indians, commonly called the Five Nations (thereafter Six Nations), in 1722; a member of this people; their language. Also attrib.
1650E. Bland Jrnl. 28 Aug. in Discovery New Britaine (1651) 3 An Englishman, a Cockarous hard by Captaine Floods, gave this Indian Bells..to lay downe to the Tuskarood King. 1713in N. Carolina Colonial Rec. (1886) II. 2 An order from ye Government of New Yorke to Caution ye Tuscaroras against going to warr with ye English here. 1785T. Jefferson Notes Virginia 390 The Monacans or Tuscaroras..were taken into the confederacy.., making the sixth [nation]. 1878Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts 10 May 537/2 He wants one of my improved phonographs to preserve the accents of the..Tuscaroras, who are dying out. 1910F. W. Hodge et al. Handbk. Amer. Indians N. of Mexico II. 842 The Tuscarora..possessed in early times the ‘country lying between the sea shores and the mountains, which divide the Atlantic States'. 1915J. Buchan Salute to Adventurers ix. 137 All this land..is Sioux country... But cheek by jowl is a long strip held by the Tuscaroras. 1933L. Bloomfield Language iv. 72 The Iroquoian family was spoken in a district surrounded by Algonquian; it includes..the languages of the Iroquois type (Mohawk, Oneida,..Tuscarora). 1976W. L. Chafe in T. A. Sebeok Native Languages of Americas I. 532 The Northern Iroquoian languages which are still spoken are six in number. They include the very closely related languages of the original Five Nations of the Iroquois..plus Tuscarora, now the Sixth Nation, a language somewhat more divergent. 1979United States 1980/81 (Penguin Travel Guides) 654 The Tuscarora Indian Reservation is nearby. |