Historic Indigenous tribe of the Eastern Woodlands
Ethnic group
Tutelo
Map showing tribal lands of the Tutelo prior to 1600
Total population
Extinct as a tribe [1]
Regions with significant populations
West Virginia, Virginia (until 1740s), Ontario (1779-ca. 1900) (descendants assimilated into Cayuga nation)
Languages
Siouan Tutelo language
Related ethnic groups
Occaneechi, Manahoac, Monacan, after 18th century: Cayuga
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 Monacan and Manahoac nations.
Under pressure from English settlers and Seneca Iroquois, they joined with other Virginia Siouan tribes in the late 17th century and became collectively known as the Nahyssan. By 1740, they had largely left Virginia and migrated north to seek protection from their former Iroquois opponents. They were adopted by the Cayuga tribe of New York in 1753.[2][1] Ultimately, their descendants migrated into Canada.[1]
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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...
Tutelo, also known as Tutelo–Saponi, is a member of the Virginian branch of Siouan languages that were originally spoken in what is now Virginia and West...
related to the languages of the Tutelo, Biloxi, and Ofo. They were part of the Monacan confederacies. Saponi, Tutelo, and Yesang were collectively called...
Dhegihan languages), and Ohio Valley Siouan languages (Ofo, Biloxi, and Tutelo). The Catawban branch consisting of Catawban and Woccon. Charles F. Voegelin...
other Siouan-speaking tribes of the inland in this region, such as the Tutelo, Saponi and Occaneechi. When Jamestown settlers first explored the James...
These languages are sometimes collectively referred to as Catawban, Tutelo, Tutelo-Saponi, or Yesah (Yesa:sahį). Eastern Siouan languages were historical...
Waskiteng and Mosquito, (b. ca. 1765- d. 1871, Tutelo) was known as the last full-blooded speaker of Tutelo, a Virginia Siouan language. He is reported to...
diseases, the Saponi and Tutelo came to live near the Occaneechi on adjacent islands. By 1714 the Occaneechi moved to join the Tutelo, Saponi, and other Siouan...
The group has Ofo and Biloxi, in the Lower Mississippi River valley, and Tutelo, historically spoken in Virginia, near the territory of the Catawban languages...
Bell conducted his early telephone experiments from his father's home in Tutelo Heights, Ontario, and also building some 2,398 telephones to Bell's specifications...
largest Council-owned Scout reservation in the United States. The council's Tutelo Lodge is part of the Order of the Arrow. The council was formed in 1972...
Iroquoian-speaking Nottoway and Meherrin to the north and south, and the Tutelo, who spoke Siouan, to the west. In response to threats from these other...
Aramaic. Tutelo went extinct in 1982, leading most Monacans, Saponi, and Occaneechi to speak English. There has been some interest in reviving Tutelo in the...
constantly joined with other tribes for better protection. They joined with the Tutelo, Saponi, Occaneechi, and the Shakori tribes, moving to the Albemarle Sound...
Mountains. They united with the Monacan, the Occaneechi, the Saponi and the Tutelo. They disappeared from the historical record after 1728. According to William...
"Where we keep the pipe of peace." In the mid 18th century, a group of Tutelo, a Siouan-speaking people, migrated north from their homelands in Virginia...
the Kanawha River. Their settlements were near the Manahoac, Moneton, and Tutelo, Siouan language–speaking tribes of Virginia. The Moneton may have been...
Frank G. (1935). "Siouan Tribes of the Carolinas as Known from Catawba, Tutelo, and Documentary Sources". American Anthropologist. 37 (2): 201–225. doi:10...
trace their migrations. Hale was the first to analyze and confirm that the Tutelo language of some Virginia Native Americans belonged to the Siouan family...
Kentucky and extending an unknown distance inland, and the Eastern Siouan Tutelo and Moneton tribes in the southeast. There was also the Iroquoian Susquehannock...
moved to Kentucky, pushing the Kispoko east and war broke out with the Tutelo of North Carolina and Virginia that pushed them further north and east....
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