When Goodwin was elected to the state House in 2018, he made Locklear a promise: He would do everything in his power to get ...

Her African ancestry derives from the Ivory Coast and her native roots come from the Haliwa-Saponi and Tuscarora tribes, said Knight, founder of Black Indians NC. But she has declined to pursue ...

North Carolina recognizes eight American Indian tribes, only one of which, the Eastern Band of the Cherokee, has federal recognition. The Tuscarora Nation’s effort to get legal recognition in ...

Without state recognition, members of the Tuscarora Nation are excluded from several benefits typically afforded to Native American tribes. “We are no longer able to compete in powwows ...

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The Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina is once ... from some benefits afforded to the eight other state-recognized tribes, like eligibility for scholarships, the ability to compete in powwows ...

Since the 1970s, several groups identifying as Tuscarora Indians have organized in North Carolina, but none has been recognized by the federal government or is among the eight tribes recognized by ...

Author David La Vere's new book looks at the Tuscarora War – the brutal colonial ... More than 500 warriors from multiple Native American tribes swept through the area destroying farms & families.

The response from the English was swift and brutal, with successive expeditions of whites and non-Tuscarora tribes from South Carolina in 1712 and 1713 taking on the forces of Tuscarora Chief ...