I have been in the process of proving my Native American Tuscarora Heritage and think I have finally accomplished that feat. However not enough has been done to bring back the validity of our indigenous heritage. My gggreat grandmother Sarah Carter who married William Waterman was native American Tuscarora. Oral histories from my family enlightened me to our Mayflower and Native American roots. Sarah was the daughter of Edward Carter Indian Agent and his father was Sheriff John Carter. Many of the people who were deeded lands along the Neuse and Cape Fear Rivers and their tributaries were the Tuscarora who were reclaiming their lands according to the customs of the English settlers just as those indigenous people have done along the swamps of Drowning Creek that we now know as the Lumber River. I am so grateful for your research and videos. I am now predominantly of mixed European heritage but the blood of my Tuscarora ancestors has connected me to the land and its people and has led me to find and tell my own story of that heritage. We need more people to help bring together the stray shards of our Tuscarora nation. Very few Tuscarora actually left NC. They remained and are still here to today embedded in the fabric of the land that was traditionally their home. I am connected to the Carters and Blizzards whose Tuscarora Heritage is still present in Eastern NC living between the Roanoke and Cape Fear Rivers as they always have been. Thank you for this!

I'm Tuscarora, and I can't believe someone with educational authority is speaking about this issue. Seeing as to how the state and federal government seems to think and act as if we are extinct,

Excellent! Thank you for facilitating this presentation. Please relay my praise to Dr. Smallwood for the concise presentation of such a broad topic! Fine lecture. I was an acquaintance of genealogist and historian Dr. Dallas Price, of Rose Hill, NC, and his commentary, during social gatherings, touched on such topics, I'm sure many interesting insights passed with him, and I would like to thank Dr. Smallwood for reminding me of precious memories in the telling of rare history. Particularly that which is difficult to piece together and little known to eastern North Carolinians. Fully enjoyed this presentation.

@bettyraynor-davis9

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Never heard of Dr Dallas Price. I knew Dr Dallas Herring personally. He descended from the Herrings and Southerlands of Eastern NC. I researched his collection a lot. He collected and preserved a vast amount of fantastic history and was so generous to share it with anyone and everyone. He wanted to leave his collection to me or someone close to him that would really appreciate what he had. I did not live in NC and could not accept what he offered but I am glad that his collection is now available through so many resources.

Excellent presentation .. I’ll look for more from Dr Smallwood.

As a lover of history I truly enjoyed this session.

@LibraryCompany

3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

Awesome presentation. Africans tend to be left out of most of history. We have the Moore surname in the family. Where did it originate? I read somewhere that they were Moorish. You will also see that surname in the Tuscarora Nation.

I’ve always thought North Carolina was more South Virginia due to the early settlements being people leaving Jamestown. Guess I didn’t know the half of it.

How are ya, The Library Company of Philadelphia. it's a surprisingly awesome video. thanks. :)

@LibraryCompany

3 жыл бұрын

We're glad you liked it!

Also consider that among the Spanish were Spanish, Basque, and Sephardic Jews. Just trying to understand my ancestors. The Saponi Tribe settled into Smith Twp. Whitley County, Indiana before 1850.

@BrandonTWills

8 ай бұрын

There was a Jewish man in the Lost Colony also. You don’t hear too much about them during that time.

My 2nd Great Grandmonther is Eliza Brock born 1841 in New Bern, NC

Is this slide show available?

How do you know the Machapunga didn’t exist before 1584???

I'm not sure where he got the explanation for the migrations of the Iroquoian peoples from, but that I am aware, the St. Lawrence Iroquoians were the first Iroquoian people (wherever it is they may have come from, or how long they had been there, I don't know.) & three groups split off from them. One travelled west along the north side of the Great Lakes, giving birth to the Huron, the Neutral Nation, then swinging back around across the Niagara River to form the Petun. One travelled west along the south side of the Great Lakes & gave birth to the Iroquois, the Erie, then they went back across the Allegheny River & travelled south, becoming the western tribes of the Susquehannocks. The final group split from the Mohawk & migrated straight south, giving birth to the Eastern tribes of the Susquehannocks, possibly the Tockwogh on the Delmarva Peninsula, & then the Nottoway, Meherrin, Tuscarora & Cherokee. Shortly thereafter, the Catawbas came into the area with the Saponi & broke the Cherokee away from the others & forced them off to the southwest. Then, the tribes who formed during the colonial era were the Wyandot, who were Hurons captured by the Iroquois Confederacy during the Beaver Wars & forced into a sort of vassal state scenerio, the Guyandotte, who were probably Petun & were ended up in southern West Virginia, whether they were vassals of the Iroquois as well, the Coharie who were the Tuscarora who stayed behind in North Carolina after the Tuscarora War & the Weston, who were most likely the last of the free Erie, who fled Ohio during the Beaver Wars & relocated to the Carolinas.

@kellyowens1868

2 жыл бұрын

Your understanding of this topic far outpaces that of the speaker. From what I've learned recently from an interesting podcast called "The Other States of America," the Iraquois Confederacy was made up of 5 tribes in the up-state New York area, having nothing to do with the southern Tuscaroara, & Cherokee Iraquois speaking tribes. Much of what is called "The Beaver Wars," had nothing to do with the beaver fur trade with European traders, in fact. The Iraquois exterminated many smaller Algonquin speaking tribes to the East where beavers had long since been hunted out, in addition to their wars of aggression against other Iraquois speaking tribes like those of the larger Huron Confederacy to their west, the Machicans {The Last of the Mohichins}, due east of the Iraquios, Confederacy, & other tribal groups to the south. Another error I recognized was the speaker's timing of the use of wampum bead belts as a means of exchange. Until the delicate machinery to mass produce the tiny tubular shell beads was imported by early Dutch fur traders, wampum only existed in single, necklace strands. As far as the archeological record goes, no wampum belts have been discovered prior to the introduction of the small mechanical devices capable made in the Spanish Netherlands, during this time period. It's funny the speaker neglects to mention how common cannibalism of enemy war dead was among every Iraquois tribal group both before, & after the arrival of the first Europeans in north eastern North America. Being much more familiar with relatively peaceful tribes in California, & the desert Southwest I was shocked at the levels, & extent of torture the Iraquois subjected indigenous, & european captives to. I can see why these things were never discussed in high school settings because they are truely disturbing, but widespread ignorance of the truth is the unintended result. KOut

@MrChristianDT

2 жыл бұрын

@@kellyowens1868 Yeah, I try. I don't have any contacts among the tribes themselves, but I spent years researching & digesting anything I could get my hands on. I even helped rewrite some of the Native American sections of a few states' histories on Wikipedia, over time. Did the most on Ohio, Pennsylvania & West Virginia. I tried on some other states, but some of it wasn't great & a lot of it got deleted or rewritten either because I included something which wasn't correct (but then they deleted all the stuff I did get right along with it) or by some person watching the page who got so intense that their horribly inaccurate info was correct, they refused to allow it to be changed, altered or added to in any way. One was actually pretty funny, because I had to spend so much time in the article defending my position, it got deleted because it "read like a college thesis instead of giving established fact." But, it sucks that you still have info which was assumed to have been proven inacurate still running rampant out there, even among supposed experts in the field which tends to get in the way or learning more. Even members of tribes themselves don't often know that much about each other & accidentally perpetuate bad information about tribes other than themselves, thinking it was established fact.

@Nickelniner09

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@@MrChristianDT if you were as knowledgeable as you say your work wouldn’t have been taken down for a few mistakes don’t come on here trying to discredit this distinguished scholar go out there and do your own presentations on this if you feel you can do a better job but that won’t happen because you’re not as smart as you think you are

@MrChristianDT

Жыл бұрын

@@Nickelniner09 I'm going by what the tribe says themselves. Albeit the sources who wrote it down in the first place had difficulty with some aspects of what they were trying to communicate, this has been publicly available information for 150 years. A lot of these scholars who get interested in the subject seem to only research one tribe. I tried to research pretty much the entire eastern half of the continent. And what "few mistakes" are we talking about, here?

Seneca tribe buffalo to Niagara falls

I know these people in person

Greetings yes My appreciation to U both for Ur presentation. I Am 10:48 minutes into this video. I STILL am not sure who or better yet what these people Nationality or Color were.1828 Webster says we were COPPER COLORED PEOPLE.BUT THAT WAS NOT WHAT U TWO SHOWED US . WHY ????DIDN'T U SHOW THE TRUTH FROM the STart. Please SHOW US,US.

Do some history facts yall ain’t done enough, I love it but don’t discount people who look like you from history, think back further, copper colored tribes