Yesa

E1026221

Yesa is an alternative name for the Tutelo, a Siouan-speaking Indigenous people historically located in the eastern United States.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Yesa canonical 2
Yesaŋ 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
Native American ethnic group
alternativeNameOf Tutelo
colonialEraStatus displaced by European colonization
contactWith English colonists
French colonists
Iroquois
linked to: Haudenosaunee
continent North America
culturalArea Southeastern Woodlands
culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
demographicStatus largely assimilated
documentedBy Horatio Hale
ethnicClassification Eastern Siouan
ethnicGroupOf United States
ethnonymLanguage Siouan language family
linked to: Siouan languages
hasEthnonym Tutelo
Yesa
historicalRegion North Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
eastern United States
language Tutelo language
languageFamily Siouan languages
languageStatus extinct language
laterAffiliation Iroquois Confederacy
Six Nations Reserve
linguisticBranch Eastern Siouan languages
linked to: Southeastern Siouan
migration northward under Iroquois protection
peopleAlsoCalled Totero
Tutelo
Yesang
relatedEthnicGroup Catawba
Monacan
Occaneechi
Saponi
religion traditional Indigenous religion
timePeriod 18th century
colonial era
pre-Columbian era
traditionalHousing village settlements
wooden structures
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering
hunting
maize agriculture

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tutelo people alsoKnownAs Yesaŋ
linked to: Yesa
Yesa hasEthnonym Yesa