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Machapunga
Indian Tribe
Machapunga
('bad dust'; from matchi 'bad', pungo 'dust' (Heckewelder),
or perhaps 'much dust,' from massa 'great', in allusion to the
sandy soil of the district). An Algonquian tribe formerly living in Hyde
county, north east N. C. In 1701 they numbered only about 30 warriors, or
perhaps 100 souls, and lived in a single village called Mattamuskeet. They
took part in the Tuscarora war of 1711-12 and at its conclusion the
remnant, together with the Coree, were settled
on a tract on Mattamuskeet lake, where the two tribes occupied one
village.
Index of Tribes or Nations Source: Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
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