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Machapunga
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| extinct as a tribe[1] (18th century) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Eastern North Carolina | |
| Languages | |
| Carolina Algonquian language | |
| Religion | |
| Indigenous religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Secotan,[2] other North Carolina Algonquians |
The Machapunga were a small Algonquian language–speaking Native American tribe from coastal northeastern North Carolina.[2] They were part of the Secotan people.[3] They were a group from the Powhatan Confederacy who migrated from present-day Virginia.
Machpunga is also the name of an early 16th-century village on the Potomac River and of an 18th-century Powhatan Confederacy village in Northampton County, Virginia.[4]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
hodge349was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Swanton, The Indian Tribes of North America, 81.
- ^ Kupperman, Karen Ordahl (2007). Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony. Plymouth, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 73. ISBN 9780742552630.
- ^ Hodge, Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, p. 781.
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