Tuscaroras

Tuscaroras, a North American people, originally of North Carolina, who in 1712 migrated northward, and joined the Iroquois Confederacy as the "sixth nation" [IROQUOIS]; reduced (1890) to 733, nearly all in the Tuscarora Reserve, New York, and in Grand River Reserve, Ontario. In the early records of the Carolinas the Tuscaroras are found associated with the historical Pamlico nation, who are now extinct, but whose name survives in Pamlico Sound, Cape Hatteras,