Machapunga

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]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference hodge349 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Swanton, The Indian Tribes of North America, 81.
  3. ^ Kupperman, Karen Ordahl (2007). Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony. Plymouth, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 73. ISBN 9780742552630.
  4. ^ Hodge, Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, p. 781.