Skarureh

The Skarureh group includes two Iroquoian peoples of the southern Atlantic coastal plain: the Skarureh, called Tuscarora by the English, of North Carolina, and the Nottoway, who call themselves Cheroenhaka, of Virginia. The Skarureh name means hemp gatherers, and their matrilineal clans formed a confederacy of three tribes.

The Tuscarora War of 1711—1715 ended with the storming of Fort Neoheroka, and most survivors drifted north. In 1722 the Oneida sponsored their admission as the sixth nation of the Haudenosaunee. The Nottoway signed the Treaty of Middle Plantation in 1680, became tributaries of Virginia and lost their lands to settlers.