Hatteras Indians

The Hatteras Indians were a tribe of Native Americans in the United States who were the earliest inhabitants of the North Carolina Outer Banks.[1] They inhabited a village on what is now called Hatteras Island called Croatoan.[1]

They first had contact with English settlers in 1587 and were gone by the mid 18th century.[1] In the 1711 Tuscarora War, the Hatteras Indians sided with the colonists and fought against the Tuscarora tribe and their allies for the colonists. This cost them heavily and many were driven from their lands by enemy tribes.[2]

The modern-day Roanoke-Hatteras tribe is partially descended from them.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Harrison, Molly (August 1, 2003). Exploring Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout National Seashores. Globe Pequot Press. pp. 11–12. ISBN 978-0762726097.
  2. ↑ Michael Leroy Oberg (2013), The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians, University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 0812203410, retrieved 2015-03-28, ... In 1711, the conflict known as the Tuscaror War began ... The Hatteras, who "always had been friendly with the whites ... and cherished a friendship with the English because of their affinity," fought for the colonists against the Tuscaroras and their allies. By 1714 the Hatteras were refugees ...


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