Tuscaroras

(tüs-kah-ro'rāhz.) (Ethnol.) A N. Amer. Indian tribe, formerly peopling the country about the Tar and Neuse rivers in N. Carolina. In 1711 they entered into war with the whites, and, being defeated, removed to the State of New York, where they entered the Iroquois Confederacy, and became allies of the English during the Revolutionary War. Some few families of them still exist, in a comparatively civilized state. [s. 914]