The Hatteras Indians were a tribe of Native Americans in the United States who lived in the North Carolina Outer Banks.[2] They inhabited a village on what is now called Hatteras Island[1] called Croatoan.[2]
^ abJohn Reed Swanton, The Indian Tribes of North America, 80.
^ abHarrison, Molly (August 1, 2003). Exploring Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout National Seashores. Globe Pequot Press. pp. 11–12. ISBN 978-0762726097.
tribes. Some descendants of the HatterasIndians may be part of the Lumbee Indians.[better source needed] The HatterasIndians spoke a language in the Algonquian...
telecommunications equipment provider HatterasIndians, the Roanoke-HatterasIndian tribe Places: Hatteras, North Carolina Hatteras Island, an island in North Carolina's...
Cape Hatteras. It is part of North Carolina's Outer Banks and includes the communities of Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Avon, Buxton, Frisco, and Hatteras. It...
Cape Hatteras /ˈhætərəs/ is a cape located at a pronounced bend in Hatteras Island, one of the barrier islands of North Carolina. As a temperate barrier...
Kingdom, have also been excavating on Hatteras Island in conjunction with the Croatoan Archaeological Society. Hatteras Island is the main locus for the settlement...
known as Hatteras Island. During John Lawson's 1701–1709 exploration of northern Carolina, he visited Hatteras Island and encountered the Hatteras people...
Croatoan-Hatteras tribes later merged with English communities. The 2000 federal census found that 83 descendants from the Roanoke and Hatteras Tribe lived...
Cheraw, Keyauwee, and HatterasIndians along Drowning Creek, now known as the Lumbee, or Lumber River. Families of Waccamaw Indians continued to live along...
has, at times, been contiguous with neighboring Bodie Island or Hatteras Island), Hatteras Island, Ocracoke Island, Portsmouth Island, and the Core Banks...
Coast. Cape Hatteras National Seashore was authorized by Congress on August 17, 1937. The funds to purchase much of the land for Cape Hatteras National Seashore...
the Outer Banks, a row of low, sandy barrier islands that include Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Cape Lookout National Seashore, and Pea Island National...
Carolinas. By the 1770s, remnant Indians from the once distinct tribal communities of the Cheraw, Keyauwee, Hatteras, Waxhaw, Sugaree, Eno and Shakori...
North Carolina's Outer Banks led to it considering designation of Cape Hatteras, where not only beach-going but also fishing and hunting were already popular...
of the Hatteras tribe living on Roanoke Island who claimed some of their ancestors were white people. Lawson wrote that several of the Hatteras tribesmen...
lighthouse in the state and one of the tallest in the United States (the Cape Hatteras Light in North Carolina is taller at 207 feet (63 m)). It is located between...
South-West Indian Ocean, and two in the Western Pacific Ocean. In the Atlantic: Hurricane Helene (1958) – a powerful storm that grazed Cape Hatteras causing...
longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, which he co-founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1968 to represent urban Indians. He was a pre-eminent spokesman...
settlement in the Somers Isles (or Islands of Bermuda), 640 miles off Cape Hatteras, began in 1609 with the wreck of the Sea Venture, leaving the Virginia...
had been captured by a pirate, and that something had occurred near Cape Hatteras, notorious for wreckers who lured ships into danger. Aaron Burr refused...
more than 400 passengers and crew who drowned as the ship sank off Cape Hatteras on September 12. It was the largest loss of life in a commercial ship disaster...
A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore: From the Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-618-00209-2. Ligia exotica:...
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