Total population | |
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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]
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