Tuscarora Language (Iroquois)

Although not produced by Dr. Rudes, this word list was the first publicly available Tuscarora language dictionary available until Dr. Rudes completed his thorough and accurate Tuscarora-English/English-Tuscarora dictionary. This particular dictionary was published by the late F. Roy Johnson. The Tuscarora translations of English words are not exactly correct in their phonetic pronunciations, but considering F. Roy Johnson was a historian and author, and not an indigenous languages expert, his commitment to documenting what he could about the Tuscarora is to be greatly admired. Coastal Carolina Indian Center was given permission by Mr. Johnson’s widow, Margaret Johnson, to reprint this dictionary on our website. [Continue reading…]