Some Things are Worth More than Money: The Continuity of Traditional Values Among the Tuscaroras

Authors

Jennifer Coleman Nixon, East Carolina University

Abstract

The contemporary Tuscaroras have maintained unique cultural features despite their eighteenth-century migration from North Carolina and resettlement in New York, integration into the larger Iroquois Confederacy and recent challenges to political sovereignty. Concepts of land and family are central to Tuscarora culture on the contemporary reservation. Cultural values in the twentieth century have been expressed through the maintenance of a communally held land base and the preservation of ru;i autonomous political system. Data from recent fieldwork are used to discuss the significant symbols of Tuscarora culture and their relationship to the maintenance of traditional values and lifeways.

Relational Format

journal article

Recommended Citation

Nixon, Jennifer Coleman (2000) "Some Things are Worth More than Money: The Continuity of Traditional Values Among the Tuscaroras," Southern Anthropologist: Vol. 27: No. 1, Article 3.
Available at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southern_anthropologist/vol27/iss1/3