essay
Tuscarora among the Iroquois
Handbook of North American Indians. Northeast • 15 • Published In 1978 • Pages: 518-524 [dc]
By: Landy, David.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article summarizes the cultural history of the Tuscarora from the early eighteenth to the mid twentieth century (ca. 1960s). Landy describes the underlying conditions in North Carolina and Virginia, the Tuscarora's original homeland, which led them to migrate to New York State where they sought protection among the Iroquois in the early eighteenth century. However, it was not until 1722 or 1723 that the Tuscarora refugees were formerly adopted into the League of the Iroquois as the sixth nation of the confederacy (p. 519). This document includes data on settlement patterns, population figures, the Tuscarora's role in the American Revolution, missionary influences, land loss, economy, and social organization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A synonymy and a bibliography list conclude the work.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History and culture change
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Clans
- Form and rules of government
- Deliberative councils
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iroquois
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1994
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- variable
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tuscarora, United States and Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- David Landy
- GPO Stock no.: 047-000-00351-2
- Bibliography included as document no. 54
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iroquois Indians/Tuscarora