Eastern Carolina University hosted the 300th Anniversary Commemoration of the Battle of Fort Nooherooka in the spring of 2013.  In preparation for this even, ECU constructed a website, which I hope they will continue to maintain, adding documents, papers, photos and other information relevant to Tuscarora history.  In fact, this would be the perfect forum for ongoing study, papers, conferences and community events for the northern and southern Tuscarora people.

Let’s take a look at the primary pages they have assembled.

http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/nooherooka/?page_id=38

As with any website, the intro pages and acknowledgements te;; about the goals of the site and who is involved.  That list is pretty impressive.

http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/nooherooka/?page_id=380

http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/nooherooka/?page_id=44

Perhaps of more interest to our readers are the historical pages, as follows:

Artifacts excavated from the Nooherooka site by the ECU Anthropology Department between 1990 and 2001, including the smoking pipe with the eel or snake design, shown above:

http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/nooherooka/?page_id=17

Tuscarora War Documents including the Barnwell Journal:

http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/nooherooka/?page_id=38

Discussion board which holds historical articles and not really discussion:

http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/nooherooka/?page_id=632

Other items of interest include the Construction of the Nooherooka Monument as well as some videos from a visit by the New York Tuscarora in 2012 in preparation for the 300^th Anniversary Commemoration Event in the spring of 2013.

http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/nooherooka/?page_id=42

Videos:

http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/nooherooka/?page_id=19

I would love to see them add some photos of the Commemoration event itself.  We’ve includes two articles, one about the Commemoration and the second, a historical family story interwoven with the historical events.

https://nativeheritageproject.com/2013/03/26/fort-neoheroka-300-years-later-tuscarora-commemorative-monument/

https://nativeheritageproject.com/2013/03/31/tuscarora-the-ones-that-stayed-behind/

Another ECU site provides this video of the events:

http://www.ecu.edu/cs-admin/news/N300.cfm

Additional ECU photos:

http://ecuphotos.zenfolio.com/p1046596618

This Facebook site includes photos taken by the attendees:

https://www.facebook.com/events/628042403879898/