Tutelo (Amerind tribe)
Years: 1500 - 1779
The Tutelo (also Totero, Totteroy, Tutera; Yesan in Tutelo) are Native American people living above the Fall Line in present-day Virginia and West Virginia.
They speak a Siouan dialect of the 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 join with other Virginia Siouan tribes in the late seventeenth century and become collectively known as the Tutelo-Saponi.
By 1740, they have largely left Virginia and migrated north to seek protection from their former Iroquois opponents.
They are adopted by the Cayuga tribe of New York in 1753.
