Editing Tuscarora people (section)

== Unrecognized groups in North Carolina ==
Numerous [[unrecognized tribes]] in North Carolina claim Tuscarora descent.<ref name="v346">{{cite web | title=Home | website=Tuscarora Nation Of North Carolina | url=https://tuscaroranationnc.com/ | access-date=2024-06-11}}</ref> Beginning in the late 20th century, they have organized and reformed in various configurations. None have [[state recognition]]<ref>{{cite web |title=NC Tribal Communities |url=https://www.doa.nc.gov/divisions/american-indian-affairs/tribes |website=NC Department of Administration |access-date=23 August 2024}}</ref> or [[federal recognition]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs |journal=Federal Register |date=8 January 2024 |volume=89 FR 944 |pages=944–48 |url=https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/01/08/2024-00109/indian-entities-recognized-by-and-eligible-to-receive-services-from-the-united-states-bureau-of |access-date=23 August 2024}}</ref>

They have included:
# Cape Fear Band of Skarure Woccon (located mainly in Brunswick, Bladen, Columbus, and Pender Counties and also South Carolina){{citation needed|date=August 2023}}
# Skaroreh Katenuaka Tuscarora Nation of Indians,<ref>{{cite web |title=State Recognition: Tuscarora Nation of NC |url=https://lrs.sog.unc.edu/bill/state-recognition-tuscarora-nation-nc |website=Legislative Reporting Service |publisher=UNC School of Government |access-date=23 August 2024}}</ref> Windsor, NC
# Southern Band Tuscarora Indian Tribe, Windsor, NC
# Tosneoc Tuscarora Community, Wilson County, NC
# Tuscarora Indian Tribe, Drowning Creek Reservation, Maxton, NC
# Tuscarora Nation East of the Mountains, Bowland, NC
# Tuscarora Nation One Fire Council, Robeson County, NC (formed in 2010 from several bands in Robeson County)
# Tuscarora Nation of Indians of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC
# Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina, Maxton, NC. 
# Tuscarora Tribe of Indians Maxton, NC, (1979) effective date per Sec. of State NC, 08/20/1990

Tuscarora Nation officials in New York dispute claims that anyone in North Carolina has continuity as a tribe with the Tuscarora.<ref name="ReferenceA">Gerald M. Sider, ''Living Indian Histories: [[Lumbee]] and Tuscarora people in North Carolina'', Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003</ref> In the spring of 1973 students from NC State and members of the local Tuscarora people staged a protest seeking "federal and state recognition of the autonomous bands of the Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina, the right to run their own school systems, and better job opportunities for Native American communities."<ref name="protest">{{cite web | title=Tuscarora Protest of 1973 | website=NC State University Libraries | date=2023-04-17 | url=https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/special-collections/tuscarora-protest-1973 | access-date=2024-06-11}}</ref> The protest involved a {{convert|100|mi|adj=on}} walk from Pembroke, North Carolina to the State Capitol in Raleigh.<ref name="protest" /> 

The Tuscarora Nation of New York says that the great majority of the tribe moved north to New York. New York leaders consider any individuals remaining in North Carolina as no longer having tribal status, although they might possibly have some Tuscarora ancestry.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>