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T. Tuscarora people. Tutelo. Categories: Native American history of West Virginia. Native American tribes by state. West Virginia.
The Monongahela culture were an Iroquoian Native American cultural manifestation of Late Woodland peoples from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day Western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia. [1] The culture was named by Mary Butler in 1939 for the Monongahela River, whose valley contains the majority of this culture's sites.
The protohistoric period of the state of West Virginia in the United States began in the mid-sixteenth century with the arrival of European trade goods. Explorers and colonists brought these goods to the eastern and southern coasts of North America and were brought inland by native trade routes. This was a period characterized by increased ...
Pages in category "Native American history of West Virginia". The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . List of West Virginia placenames of Native American origin.
The Tuscarora (in Tuscarora Skarù:ręˀ) are an Indigenous Peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands in Canada and the United States. They are an Iroquoian Native American and First Nations people. The Tuscarora Nation, a federally recognized tribe, is based in New York, and the Tuscarora First Nation is one of the Six Nations of the Grand River ...
In 1674, English colonist Abraham Wood sent his servant Gabriel Arthur from Fort Henry in Wheeling, West Virginia to visit local tribes to expand the fur trade. [5] Arthur visited them and described their capital as "a great town," [1] which might be Saint Albans or Buffalo, West Virginia. [5] That is the last contemporary mention of them. [1]
The first evidence of humans in West Virginia dates back to the nomadic Paleo-Indians in 11,000 BCE. [1] From 7000 to 1000 BCE, archaic Native American cultures developed in the Northern Panhandle , the Eastern Panhandle , and the Kanawha River Valley. [ 1 ]
Mingo. Iroquoian-speaking people native to central New York, U.S. Statue of Chief Logan, a notable Mingo leader, in Logan, West Virginia. The Mingo people are an Iroquoian group of Native Americans, primarily Seneca and Cayuga, who migrated west from New York to the Ohio Country in the mid-18th century, and their descendants.