Tuscarora Ascendancy

This article which appeared in the October 1982 issue of The North Carolina Historical Review, was written by Dr. Thomas Parramore (former Meredith College professor and one of the most knowledgeable and thorough historians to have ever written about the Indians of eastern North Carolina.) This piece is frequently cited for its in-depth information on the wide-spread influence of the Tuscarora nation in North Carolina in the colonial period. If you’d like to find out how to obtain back issues of The North Carolina Historical Review, or if you’d like to purchase books from the North Carolina Historical Publications Store (part of North Carolina Division of Cultural Resources), please click here.

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“Tuscarora Ascendancy”

Copyright information for “Tuscarora Ascendancy” by Dr. Thomas Parramore.

©1982 The North Carolina Historical Review – North Carolina Historic Publications Division. Permission for Coastal Carolina Indian Center (CCIC) to reprint this article on the CCIC website granted by the North Carolina Historic Publications Division. Permission for specific images granted by Burgerbibliothek Bern in Bern, Switzerland and Duke University Press.

This article should not be reproduced in whole or in part without express written permission from the North Carolina Historic Publications Division.

This article originally appeared in the North Carolina Historical Review in October 1982. Coastal Carolina Indian Center has been granted permission to reprint this article in our Research Databases. We have also obtained permission from Burgerbibliothek Bern in Bern, Switzerland for reprinting the two line drawings by John Louis Michel and Franz Louis Michel that are included in the article, as well as permission from the Duke University Press to reprint two maps in the article that originally appeared in the journal Ethnohistory. We are grateful for the kindness and cooperation of these agencies and their representatives.