[sammarroq]

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Roger, Two Knife said in an email:

My people were the Shawnee, Blackfoot, Cherokee,

Tuckahoe and others.

I have researched the people named Tuckahoe and have

come to this conclusion from everything I have found. Tuckahoe was not

the name of a tribe or nation of Indians. It was applied to mostly

Indians for several reasons that I have found. Usually a band of

Indians who ate a tuberose pithy like potato that we call “Old Man ‘O’

The Woods”. They were referred to as Tuckyhoe as a lower class of

people by other Indian tribes. There was also a Tuckahoe River and

there is still a place in VA called Tuckahoe. And it’s inhabitants

years ago being Indians were referred to as Tuckyhoe. There are two

instances where this reference was made of my family but I think it was

more of a description of a type of Cherokee or other Indian tribe.

Something like some people might call West Virginians..Hillbillies

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rosadove/DeeDovey’sPage/gibpage.htm

[PappyDick]

There’s a Tuckahoe Park and a Tuckahoe Elementary School (near it) in northwest Arlington VA, just north of the East Falls Church Metro station.

I think that’s one of the T streets in the “third alphabet” (names that have three syllables), and the school and park are just named for the street. Anyway it’s a nice park, my kids played there a lot when they were little. Lots of oak trees, and the pollen is about six inches deep this week.

[techteach]

The National Geographic has an article this month on Jamestown. In it, it says that the Powhaten ate tuckahoe to supplement their diets. It indicated that the pigs brought in by the Jamestown folks would get out and eat the tuckahoe.

Techteach

[Tom]

I hope to get to Ga. this summer, and while there I will be chopping river cane for baskets, near “tom’s cane patch” as my hosts call it, there is a large patch of tuckahoe.

I will try and get some pic’s and do some sampling cut a large root ope, show leaves, maybe taste it — maybe! etc.

Does anyone know of people that still use this food stuff?

[techteach]

The article is kind of interesting besides the mention of tuckahoe. It says that honeybees were part of the reason for the loss of the Powhaten.

Techteach

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