Linda
03-30-2001, 10:48 PM
I was half-watching "This Week in History" on the History Channel tonight and I had this idle thought, the Tuscarora Massacre should be mentioned.
The Tuscarora were Saponi neighbors, just to the south in North Carolina. They fell to the British about 40 years after the Saponi fell. Fort Neoheroka is to the Tuscarora what Bacon's Rebellion is to the Saponi. Fort Neoheroka is ten miles from where Barry and I live, in Snow Hill, NC.
Anyway, I thought about how the anniversary of their massacre should be mentioned. Then I thought, of course not, that would be considered too "obscure" for a mainstream show like that.
About ten minutes later there's a segment on some event that occurred I believe they said 53 years ago.
The Niagara Falls stopped flowing. There was some freak ice jam up in the Great Lakes and it stopped the falls. People freaked out, thought the end of the world was coming, ran to their churches or the brave ones ventured out under the falls to pick up old junk. Then there was a stock footage clip of some Indians in warbonnets beating on a drum and the narrative explaining how local Indians proclaimed it was some fulfillment of prophecy or something like that.
After the stock footage confusion had cleared I realized that had to have been Tuscarora folks making those statements. And why wouldn't the falls drying up on the anniversary of the fall of Neoheroka have rocked their world? It pretty well astonishes me.
I think it tells volumes about what the Old Religion was (is) like.
It's kind of like the time I went to the university library to find a dissertation on the Tuscarora war. It was on microfilm. I decided to print the whole thing out, who cares the cost. I wasn't sure if I'd put enough money on that little credit card thingy they sell you to make your copies, but it didn't matter, cause the machine didn't count a single page. I thought. . . cool gremlins. But then again, stoppping a counter's nothing compared to stopping the Niagara Falls. World class gremlins. http://winwinworldnet.90.uslive.net/SaponiForum/UBB/smile.gif I tell you, these Long Losts have never been lost.
The Tuscarora were Saponi neighbors, just to the south in North Carolina. They fell to the British about 40 years after the Saponi fell. Fort Neoheroka is to the Tuscarora what Bacon's Rebellion is to the Saponi. Fort Neoheroka is ten miles from where Barry and I live, in Snow Hill, NC.
Anyway, I thought about how the anniversary of their massacre should be mentioned. Then I thought, of course not, that would be considered too "obscure" for a mainstream show like that.
About ten minutes later there's a segment on some event that occurred I believe they said 53 years ago.
The Niagara Falls stopped flowing. There was some freak ice jam up in the Great Lakes and it stopped the falls. People freaked out, thought the end of the world was coming, ran to their churches or the brave ones ventured out under the falls to pick up old junk. Then there was a stock footage clip of some Indians in warbonnets beating on a drum and the narrative explaining how local Indians proclaimed it was some fulfillment of prophecy or something like that.
After the stock footage confusion had cleared I realized that had to have been Tuscarora folks making those statements. And why wouldn't the falls drying up on the anniversary of the fall of Neoheroka have rocked their world? It pretty well astonishes me.
I think it tells volumes about what the Old Religion was (is) like.
It's kind of like the time I went to the university library to find a dissertation on the Tuscarora war. It was on microfilm. I decided to print the whole thing out, who cares the cost. I wasn't sure if I'd put enough money on that little credit card thingy they sell you to make your copies, but it didn't matter, cause the machine didn't count a single page. I thought. . . cool gremlins. But then again, stoppping a counter's nothing compared to stopping the Niagara Falls. World class gremlins. http://winwinworldnet.90.uslive.net/SaponiForum/UBB/smile.gif I tell you, these Long Losts have never been lost.