Tutelo

The Tutelo group gathers the Native peoples of the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, the Kanawha Valley and the upper Ohio, most of whom spoke Siouan languages. The Tutelo and Monacan lived above the Fall Line in Virginia; the Moneton, whose name means Big Water, in the Kanawha Valley; and the Ofo, or Mosopelea, had villages near the upper Ohio River.

Under pressure from English settlers and the Haudenosaunee, the Tutelo and related nations joined together as the Nahyssan in the late seventeenth century. The Ofo, driven by Haudenosaunee attacks, moved south to the lower Mississippi and settled in Louisiana among the Tunica and Biloxi. By 1740 the Tutelo had left their homeland, and the Cayuga adopted them in 1753.