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Hatteras Indian
Tribe
Hatteras. An Algonquian tribe living in 1701 on the sand
banks of Cape Hatteras, N. C. east of Pamlico sound, and frequenting
Roanoke Island. Their single village, Sandbanks, had them only about
80 inhabitants. They showed traces of white blood and claimed that
some of their ancestors were white. They may have been identical
with the Croatan Indians with
whom Raleigh's colonists at Roanoke Island are supposed to have taken
refuge.
Index of Tribes or Nations Source: Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
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