Tutelo

[Michael Mccafferty]

Dave,

I'm not a Tutelo expert but I have been accumulating data for looking into
the Tutelo in the Ohio valley with the hope of somehow linking them up
with the Miami-Illinois. A lot or all of this material may be old
hat for our (non-) fellow Siouanists.

There is Huberto Dixon's paper on Siouans in the Ohio Valley. He collects
all of the accounts in the oral traditions of Siouans in the Ohio Valley.
There is a Catawba migration narrative in Schoolcraft which has the Catawbas
along  the south shore of Lake Erie at one point in their history. I've
heard that one Darla Spencer is collecting such accounts of Siouans in
the Ohio Valley with an eye to tying them into the archaeological evidence
such as net-impressed pottery in the Kanawha and Big Sandy river valleys.
Dick George at Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh is trying to make a Siouan
connection with the Monongehla Culture of the upper Ohio Valley. David
Feurst is an authority on New River archaeology.

Michael