At 08:30 PM 04/24/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 4/24/00 11:37:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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><< The period of
> interpretation is 1680-1709, as the Occaneechee fled from the Tuscarosa. >>
>
>I'm not being picayune, but is that the Tuscarosa or the Tuscarora. My
>interest in is that they live in New York State, Lewiston, NY up near Niagara
>Falls. Historically in the recent past they made many beaded works for the
>tourists of the falls and their handiwork became well known, according to a
>journal of New York History. Recently on television's "History Channel,"
>there was reference to gentleman who was instrumental in "saving" them from
>some fate, all I can think of is the large hydroelectric holding pond on the
>edge of the reservation. Perhaps this was his effort, before EIS's and other
>legislation. Also, recent efforts by linguists have protected what remains of
>some of their language. I personally have met with one, a Ms. Evelyn DuBuc,
>who at the time had a son Pogo, (after "we have met the enemy and he is us,")
>as we were both attending SUNY at Buffalo University at Amherst, NY, an
>initial occupancy of a new campus built on a former swamp.
>
>My interest is also sort of impersonal historical one. I read that before the
>Tuscarora were invited into the Iroquois League around 1750, there had been
>an important trial in the history of abolition possibly and noted by other
>"Societies for the Manumission of Slavery," such as the presided over by John
>Jay, noted Federalist in New York City. That particular society had been
>founded by Irish Quaker, Thomas Eddy. The trial that I read had two
>defendants in custody for enslaving or attempting to enslave some of the
>Tuscarora. They were hanged at a trial presided over by a judge named Myers,
>my impersonal interest. After this trial, as I have read it, it was
>considered by the League of the Iroquois that the Tuscarora Nation be invited
>into New York. There is a section of the Appalachians that they traveled that
>has since been known as the "Trail of Tears" perhaps the origin of the term
>in use for other forced migrations over land use and resources. They, along
>with the Onondaga, I think, fought on our side against the British Army in
>the War of Independence.
>
>If I wanted to know more about this conflict, is there a general history of
>it. even if I'm base over the mis-spelling?
>
>George J. Myers, Jr.
>

George,
That is Tuscarora, not Tuscarosa......and the word is pewter, not petwer.
Apologies for the typos.
L.

Dr.Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton
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Archaeology Supervisor
Historic Sites Section
4621 Mail Service Center
NC Department of Cultural Resources
Raleigh, NC 27699-4621


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