The Tutelo (also Totero, Totteroy, Tutera; Yesan in Tutelo) were Native American people living above the Fall Line in present-day Virginia and West Virginia. They spoke a dialect of the Siouan Tutelo language thought to be similar to that of their neighbors, the …

Nov 30, 2021 · The Tutelo tribe lived near the borders of modern-day West Virginia, Virginia, and Kentucky. They were familiar with the Appalachian mountains and lived off the game and fish …

Tutelo, also known as Tutelo – Saponi (Tutelo: Yesá:sahį́[3][4]), is a member of the Virginian branch of Siouan languages that were originally spoken in what is now Virginia and West Virginia in the United States.

Before being displaced in the Beaver Wars, the Tutelo may have been living along the Big Sandy River near Williamson, West Virginia. They apparently migrated to the Roanoke River near the modern city of Salem to get away from the Iroquois based on what is now New York.

Apr 30, 2019 · The Haliwa-Saponi tribe is part of a nationwide movement to resurrect nearly dead languages such as Tutelo-Saponi, which Richardson teaches to a small group of Hollister tribal members on Thursday nights.

In 1672 the Saponi and Tutelo banded together and moved to Clarksville Va with the Occaneechi on islands adjacent to Occaneechi Island. (Video) The Tutelo were on the island above the …

Tutelo as "tall, likely men, having great plenty of buffaloes, elks, and bears, with every sort of deer amongst them, which strong food makes large, robust bodies"...[3]...

Apr 14, 2012 · Tutelo sovereignty within the Hodenosaunee begins with the Oneida viceroy Shikellany whose second wife whom he married before October 1748 was Tutelo. He died before the Tutelo were admitted to the Iroquois League.

Tutelo language information and the culture, history and genealogy of the Tutelo and Saponi Indians.

The Tutelo peoples originally lived in the western and central regions of Virginia and down into North Carolina. They were first discovered by an adventurer known as Hale, who also noted their language to be of a Siouan dialect.