Hatteras Indians
{{short description|Historic Indigenous people in North Carolina}}
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|group = Hatteras
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|population = Extinct as a tribe in the late 18th century
|popplace = North Carolina
|rels = Native American religion
|langs = an Eastern Algonquian language
|related = other Eastern Algonquian peoples
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The Hatteras Indians were a tribe of Native Americans in the United States who lived in the North Carolina Outer Banks.{{cite book|last1=Harrison|first1=Molly|title=Exploring Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout National Seashores|date=August 1, 2003|publisher=Globe Pequot Press|isbn=978-0762726097|pages=11–12}} They inhabited a village on what is now called Hatteras IslandJohn Reed Swanton, The Indian Tribes of North America, 80. called Croatoan.
Name
The name Hatteras was first used by the English explorer John Lawson. Lawson was writing a book where he mentioned the Hatteras Indians for the first time. Although the meaning of Hatteras is unknown, the people from that island were known as "the people of shallow water". John Lawson believed that they may have been the Croatans.Dumbar, Gary.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/480877"The Hatteras Indians of North Carolina"], "Ethnohistory", 1960, DOI:10.2307/480877
History
The Hatteras first had contact with English settlers, notably John White, in 1587, and were gone by the mid-18th century.
In 1701, their population was estimated to be 80 people.Lewis, J.D.[https://www.carolana.com/Carolina/Native_Americans/native_americans_hatteras.html "The Hatteras Indians"], "Carolina: The Native Americans", South Carolina, 2007. During 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.{{Citation | title=The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians | author=Michael Leroy Oberg | publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press | year=2013 | accessdate=2015-03-28 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-FKqLvq-Wx0C&pg=PA132 | isbn=978-0812203417 | quote="…In 1711, the conflict known as the Tuscarora War began… The Hatteras, who "always had been friendly with the whites… and cherished friendship with the English because of their affinity," fought for the colonists against the Tuscaroras and their allies. By 1714 the Hatteras were refugees…"}}
Some descendants of the Hatteras Indians may be part of the Lumbee Indians.[http://www.native-languages.org/hatteras.htm "Hatteras Tribe"],"Native Language of the Americas", 1998.{{better source needed|date=March 2023}}
Language
The Hatteras Indians spoke a language in the Algonquian language family.
Notes
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References
- {{cite book|last1=Swanton|first1=John Reed|title=The Indian Tribes of North America |date=1952 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com |isbn=9780806317304|page=80 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xpx6WoPz7xIC}}
Category:Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands
Category:Eastern Algonquian peoples
Category:Extinct Native American tribes