Machapunga

Machapunga
Machapungo
Total population
230
Regions with significant populations
Eastern North Carolina
Languages
Carolina Algonquian language
Religion
Indigenous religion
Related ethnic groups
other North Carolina Algonquians

The Machapunga were a small Algonquian language–speaking Native American tribe from coastal northeastern North Carolina.[1] They were part of the Secotan people.[2] They were a group from the Powhatan Confederacy who migrated from present-day Virginia.

  1. ^ Swanton, The Indian Tribes of North America, 81.
  2. ^ Kupperman, Karen Ordahl (2007). Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony. Plymouth, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 73. ISBN 9780742552630.

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