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Tuscaroras
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Tuscarora
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Tus·ca·rora (tus′kə rôr′ə)
noun
- pl. Tuscaroras -·ras or Tuscarora -·ra a member of a North American Indian people, orig. of North Carolina, but after 1714 of New York and later also Ontario: joined Iroquois Confederacy c. 1722 to become the sixth of the Six Nations
- the Iroquoian language of this people
Etymology: < a Five-Nations Iroquois language, an adaptation of Tuscarora skarò˙rəʾ, lit., ? those of the Indian hemp
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