Tutelo

The Tutelo lived in the Appalachian interior west of Virginia's fall line, speaking a language related to those of the Monacan and Manahoac peoples. Their country included the New River valley and the area later known as Blacksburg. In 1671 the English expedition of Thomas Batts and Robert Fallam reached this mountain country, following a creek to the river they called Wood's River.

Pressured by warfare and expanding settlement, Tutelo communities moved east and south, joining the Saponi and Occaneechi near the Dan and Staunton rivers. Others later sought protection farther north, including at Shamokin in Pennsylvania. In 1753 the Cayuga adopted the Tutelo into their nation within the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, where they established new communities near Cayuga Lake in New York.