Duahre (or Duhare, many variant spellings) is…
1521 CE
Duahre (or Duhare, many variant spellings) is a neighboring province described as home to Datha, the principal chief of several provinces.
Ayllón is said to have marched through this province in 1526, en route to Gualdape, where he will build the short-lived colony of San Miguel de Gualdape.
The people of Duahre are described as white with very long brown hair, allowed to grow to their feet.
Datha and his wife are by far the largest of all.
The location and ethnicity of these people has been debated; candidates have included Catawban, Guale, and Cusabo.
In 2004 Blair Rudes will assert that other linguistic evidence in Martyr's account points to the Iroquoian Tuscarora tribe, and specifically their town on the Neuse River called Teyurhèhtè.
He suggests, for example, that Old Tuscaroran Teeth-ha (king) corresponds with the name "Datha", which he says may have been a title rather than proper name.
He also notes close similarities between accounts of a religious ceremony as recounted by Francisco de Chicora, and one among the Tuscarora recounted by a European in the early eighteenth century.
An Iroquoian-speaking people, the Tuscarorans had coalesced as a people around the Great Lakes, likely about the same time as the rise of the Five Nations of the historic Iroquois Confederacy, also Iroquoian-speaking and based then in present-day New York.
Migrating south from the Great Lakes area in some ancient time, they had occupied the region now known as Eastern Carolina for hundreds of years before the arrival of the Europeans.
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