Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Tutelo (also Totero Totteroy Tutera; Yesan in Tutelo) were Native people living above the Fall Line in present-day Virginia and West Virginia speaking a Siouan dialect of the Tutelo language thought to be similar to that of their neighbors the Monacan and Manahoac nations. Under pressure from English settlers and Seneca Iroquois they joined with other Virginia Siouan tribes in the late 17th century and became collectively known as the Tutelo-Saponi.