Patricia Margret Blair

My sources have it more likely that Sanduska was a Delaware or Seneca, not a Cherokee. Princess was not a term used by either tribe.

The Sandusky were a faction of the Seneca tribe located near the Sandusky River. Often, since Native Americans did not have surnames, a Christianized form of their tribal name was used. I have included an example of this below. This lady's name was probably not Sanduska, but rather, this was her tribal affiliation. I am unsure of where we're getting "princess" from.

http://network.mainegenealogy.net/group/nativeamericanancestors/for...

http://www.historynotebook.com/senecas.html

-Lindsey Hancock, lindseyloo92@gmail.com

Because of the time and location, i think this offers an explanation about the "tuckahoe" tribe:

The reference to being a 'Tuckahoe Indian' is

an old Native American inside joke. Sort of an

inside the family insult.

There is no tribe called Tuckahoe, it refers to all Algonquian speakers East

of the Blue Ridge Mountians.

The Algonquians in the West ate different foods than the ones in the East.

The ones in the West considered the ones in the East rather backward and  well,

a little bit stupid. The word 'ptuckweoo' in Western dialects means 'it is 

round', ie bread. When you refered to an 

Eastern Algonquian speaker and said he is ptuckweoo, your are refering to 

him as an eater of something round, ie mushrooms,fungus, mushrooms grow in 

poop, etc.etc.

When White people asked an individual "what tribe is that person over there?"

, if the person being asked didn't care much for the other person, she's '

ptuckweoo', White guy hears 'Tuckahoe'.

150 years later it's still a pretty good joke.