Talk:Tuscarora (tribe)

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This should be moved to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscarora_tribe.

Trbie is a typo.--Elizabeth of North Carolina 03:24, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RE: subsequent history

The article is very short,and needs alot of additions about the Tuscarora in the north, and the south, but I am going to talk about the latter.

First of all, the 1803 treaty was never ratified by Jefferson, so the treaty is null and void. Here is evidence of this first statement: http://www.skarorehkatenuakanation.org/1803affirmancefromUS.html

Next, contrary to popular belief, there are still many Tuscarora living within North Carolina today. The U.S. government does not recognize a "tribe" still within N.C. yet, but they have acknowledged individual Tuscaroras within the last 100 years. http://www.skarorehkatenuakanation.org/ottletter.html In the mid to late 19th century, there were several books, published articles, and personal writings pertaining to the Tuscarora blood of the people centered around Robeson County, which can be found at these links: http://www.skarorehkatenuakanation.org/1872harpersweekly.html, http://www.skarorehkatenuakanation.org/1885observer.html, http://www.skarorehkatenuakanation.org/lowriehistory.html, http://www.skarorehkatenuakanation.org/gormanwritings.html

In 1992, Dr. Peter Wood, professor of History at Duke, wrote a report to supplement the Hatteras Tuscarora Tribe's BIA petition, which was filed in 1980. In Dr. Wood's closing, he says;

"...It is the impression of this historian that the claim is a strong one, if presented properly. There is sound evidence that some of the Tuscarora Indians who remained in North Carolina after the Tuscarora War eventually migrated to Robeson County before 1800. They had every reason to play down their Tuscarora identity, given the hostile atmosphere, yet evidence of these connections still managed to survive. After the Civil War in the era of Henry Berry Lowrie, Robeson’s most famous Native American, it was well known in the area that his ancestors had been Tuscaroras. Some of his descendants were among those who were designated as Indians during a survey of the county in the l930s. Over the past century, generations of Tuscarora descendants have been active in the county’s complex local political life, usually representing the more rural and poorer portion of the Indian community, who have sought to maintained some distance from white and black culture in the area and some control over their own affairs. The re—emergence of this Tuscarora identity in the early l970s was seen by many as manufactured pose, when in fact the roots were extremely deep. But they had been hidden by generations of speculation about how all the Indians of Robeson County might best be lumped together under one title. The Congressional recognition of Lumbees in 1956 should not limit or constrain the Tuscarora claim. Nor should the absence of a continuous tribal structure of governance, for, as explained in the introduction, these persons are not seeking recognition as an independent and enduring historical tribe, but rather as a remnant of an existing and recognized tribe that was forced to move out of the southeastern region. In this sense, the Hatteras Tuscaroras are best seen as comparable to the Eastern Cherokees or the Mississippi Choctaws, that is, descendants of people who managed to remain near their ancestral homelands when major upheavals forced most of their kin to migrate elsewhere."

For more on this issue, take a look at this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lumbee --Roskerah 14:30, 18 September 2006 (UTC)