Tutelo tribe

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The Tutelo tribe was a Siouan-speaking Indigenous people of eastern North America, historically located in the Virginia and Carolina regions before later migrations northward.

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Tutelo tribe canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
Native American tribe
Siouan-speaking people
affectedBy Iroquois wars
linked to: Beaver Wars
alsoKnownAs Totero
Tutelo
Tutera
associatedWith Monacan
Occaneechi
Saponi
conflictWith Iroquois
linked to: Haudenosaunee
continent North America
country United States
culturalInfluenceOn Six Nations communities in Ontario
linked to: Six Nations Reserve
culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
dispersalCause warfare and colonial expansion
displacedBy European colonization
documentedBy linguist Horatio Hale
ethnicGroup Tutelo
historicalEra colonial period in North America
pre-Columbian era
historicalRegion Carolina Piedmont
North Carolina
Virginia
language Tutelo language
languageFamily Siouan languages
languageStatus extinct language
lastFluentSpeakerDied early 20th century
laterAffiliatedWith Cayuga
Six Nations
migratedTo New York
Ontario
Pennsylvania
modernDescendantsIn Canada
United States
neighboringPeople Catawba
Powhatan Confederacy
linked to: Powhatan peoples
partOf Eastern Siouan peoples
region eastern North America
religion Indigenous North American spirituality
selfDesignation Yesañ
soughtRefugeWith Iroquois Confederacy
status largely assimilated
traditionalHousing woodland-style villages
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering
hunting
maize agriculture

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Tutelo language usedBy Tutelo tribe
Tutelo spokenBy Tutelo tribe