Erasure and Tuscarora Resilience in Colonial North Carolina

by David La Vere

In the wake of their victory in the Tuscarora War (1711-15), English settlers forced the Tuscarora Indians of eastern North Carolina, along with the Meherrin, Core, Chowan, Mattamuskeet, Neuse, Hatteras, Bay River, and White Oak River Indians, to become colonial tributaries with assigned land reserves. As tributaries, these Native tribes had special duties and rights recognized by the colony, but they also had to navigate a new world thrust upon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815638353
• ISBN13: 9780815638353
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"