Tutelo people
Sign in to saveThe Tutelo (also Totero, Totteroy, Tutera; Yesan in Tutelo) were Native American people living above the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line in present-day Virginia and West Virginia. They spoke a dialect of the Tutelo language thought to be similar to that of their neighbors, the Monacan and Manahoac nations.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Tutelo
- Ethnic group.image
- Nikonha, a Tutelo man
- Ethnic group.caption
- Nikonha, a Tutelo man
- Ethnic group.population
- Extinct as a tribe
- Ethnic group.regions
- West Virginia, Virginia (until 1740s), Ontario (1779-ca. 1900) (descendants assimilated into Cayuga nation)
- Ethnic group.languages
- Tutelo language
- Ethnic group.related
- Occaneechi, Manahoac, Monacan, after 18th century: Cayuga
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Name
- Crops
- History
- Precontact
- 17th century
- 18th century
- 19th century
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
The Tutelo (also Totero, Totteroy, Tutera; Yesan in Tutelo) were Native American people living above the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line in present-day Virginia and West Virginia. They spoke a dialect of the Tutelo language thought to be similar to that of their neighbors, the Monacan and Manahoac nations.
Under pressure from English settlers and Seneca Iroquois, they joined with other Virginia Siouan tribes in the late 17th century and became collectively known as the Nahyssan. By 1740, they had largely left Virginia and migrated north to seek protection from their former Iroquois opponents. They were adopted by the Cayuga tribe of New York in 1753. Ultimately, their descendants migrated into Canada.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tutelo people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.