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 ...

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 ...

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 ...