The Deer Clan Singers of the Tuscarora Nation are lead by Dave Locklear with Mark Deese, Pura Fé,Chad Locklear and occasionally joined by other cousins in performance. Together, the Deer Clan Singers are singers and educators. They travel to native community schools, centers, festivals and perform abroad singing Tutelo-Tuscarora and Iroquois Social Dance Songs.
Tuscarora oral history relates that for some time, Iroquois people filled out long tracks of land spanning from present day South Carolina to N.Y. and leading all the way into Canada.  Along one side, their long-time South to North Coastal Algonquin neighbor/kin lived and on the other side their South Eastern Siouan relatives. All shared the common Tutelo Trade Language and often lodged together in the present day Carolinas and Virginia. Tracing back the steps of ancient kin is like following the umbilical cord, a race, a trail connecting to many corn people, bringing you to the birth place, the navel, the starting point as human beings and migration North and South from Central America.  As Tuscaroras from North Carolina, we’ve come a long way, to bring back what’s been buried, lost and taken. – Pura Fé