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Tuscarora people
The
Tuscarora
("hemp gatherers" or "Shirt-Wearing People") are a
Native American
tribe and
First Nations
band government
of the
Iroquoian
-language family, with members today in
North Carolina
,
New York
, and
Canada
. They coalesced as a people around the Great Lakes, likely about the same time as the rise of the Five Nations of the historic
Iroquois Confederacy
, also Iroquoian-speaking and based then in present-day
New York
.
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