n response to the NCCIA Criteria 01 NCAC Criteria 15.0203(a) and 01 NCAC 15.0212(3) Part C. Conclusion, the petitioner, Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina (TNNC) has provided sufficient evidence herein of lineal Tribal descent connecting to the historic Tuscarora in Bertie, an historical American Indian tribe that is Indigenous to North Carolina prior to 1790. The sufficient evidence provided herein by the TNNC will fully document the distinct Tribal origin and migration of the TNNC' s ancestors from the historic Tuscarora Indian Reservation in Bertie County, North Carolina combined with the evidence of the TNNC historical tribal bloodlines back to the early 1700s in Bertie County post Tuscarora War. Additional supporting evidence indicates their ancestors' migration with several Tuscarora Chiefs from Tuscarora lands in Bertie-Edgecombe Precinct to Bladen County, North Carolina during colonial times. The tribal historical research report will solidify the petitioner's tribal connection to the historic Tuscarora, an Indigenous Tribe of North Carolina prior to the year of 1790. According to the U.S. Department of Interior, Office of Federal Acknowledgement Criterion 83.7(e) requires that a petitioner document that its members descend from a historical Indian Tribe or from historical Indian tribes which combined and functioned as a single autonomous political entity. Applying the May 23, 2008, guidance notice, the TNNC petitioner descends from the historical North Carolina Tuscarora Indian Tribe as it existed through 1711-1830. The Federal Criteria will be used as the standard compliance for the petitioner TNNC to employ the existence of historical lists of the Tuscarora Indian residents on—or associated with—the Tuscarora Indians that would facilitate the petitioner's connection and ability to demonstrate tribal descent under the Federal Criterion 83.7(e) acknowledged by the U.S. Department of Interior, Office of Federal Acknowledgement (OFA).