On this date… September 22, 1711… North Carolina

On this date, the Tuscarora rose up and attacked the English settlement of Bath and other homesteads along the Neuse, Roanoke, and Trent Rivers. They had suffered greatly from English slave raids, land grabs, and diseases. In the uprising, hundreds of settlers were killed.

This ignited the Tuscarora War and led to the ultimate defeat of the Tuscarora.

This drawing shows Christopher von Graffenreid, founder of a Swiss- German colony in North Carolina, and his slave being held captive by the Tuscaroras during the conflict. http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues03/Co02082003/CO_02082003_Thisdate.htm

About Stephen Carr Hampton

Stephen Carr Hampton is an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation, an avid birder since age 7, and a former resource economist for the California Department of Fish & Game, where he worked as a tribal liaison and conducted natural resource damage assessments and oversaw environmental restoration projects after oil spills. He writes most often about Native history and contemporary issues, birds, and climate change.

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