troops in seizing vehicles, currency, marijuana, firearms and over 200 illegal gaming machines. Those arrested face drug, gambling and money laundering charges though claim sovereign citizen status and, according to a North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement official "openly expressed beliefs that neither the laws of North Carolina nor the United States applied to them" Tuscarora descendants in Oklahoma Some Tuscarora descendants live in Oklahoma. They are primarily descendants of Tuscarora groups absorbed in the early decades of the nineteenth century in Ohio by relocated Iroquois Seneca and Cayuga bands from New York. They became known as Mingo while in the Midwest, coalescing as a group in Ohio. The Mingo were later forced in Indian Removals to Indian Territory in present-day Kansas, and lastly, in Oklahoma. In 1937 descendants reorganized and were federally recognized as the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma. The nation occupies territory in the northeast corner of the former Indian Territory. A band of Tuscarora also moved to Oberlin, Fremont, and Elmore, Ohio in the mid 1800s from New Bern, North Carolina and participated in the Underground Railroad. Notable Tuscarora Wallace "Mad Bear" Anderson (1927–1985), Native activist David Cusick, artist and author Dennis Cusick, painter Eric Gansworth, poet and visual artist John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt, linguist and ethnographer Henry Berry Lowrie, led a resistance in North Carolina during and after the American Civil War. Frank Mount Pleasant (1884–1937), athlete Clinton Rickard (1882–1971), Native activist Alicia Elliott, author Iroquoian-speaking peoples Cherokee Chonnonton Erie Huron Iroquois Meherrin Nottoway Mohawk Petun (See also Protohistory of West Virginia ) Susquehannock (Conestoga) See also Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation Christoph von Graffenried Native American tribes in Maryland Tuscarora First Nation References Further reading Patrick Keith, Through Colonialism and Imperialism: The Struggle for Tuscarora Nationhood in Southeastern North Carolina, M.A. Thesis, 2005, University of Arizona John R. Swanton, "The Indians of the Southeastern United States", Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 137 (Washington, D.C., 1946) Bruce G. Trigger, ed., Northeast, vol. 15 of Handbook of North American Indians, ed. William C. Sturtevant (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978) Anthony F. C. Wallace, "The Modal Personality Structure of the Tuscarora Indians", Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 150 (Washington, D.C., 1952) Anthony F. C. Wallace, Tuscarora: A History (Albany: SUNY Press, 2012) External links Tuscarora and Six Nations Websites, official website Six Nations Of The Grand River Territory, official website Federally recognized tribes in