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TUSCARORA

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 486 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TUSCARORA , a tribe of See also:

North See also:American See also:Indians of Iroquoian stock. Their former range was on the Neuse See also:river, North Carolina. Here in 1700 they lived in fifteen villages and were estimated at 6000. In 1711, as a protest against the encroachments on their territory, they declared See also:war on the See also:white settlers. After two years they were defeated and fled north to the See also:Iroquois, in whose famous See also:league they became the See also:sixth nation, settling on the territory of the See also:Oneida Indians, in New See also:York See also:state. In the War of American See also:Independence some of the tribe fought for the See also:English and some against them. The remnant of them is divided between reservations in See also:Canada and New York, and See also:numbers about 700.

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