Secotan

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The Secotan were an Algonquian-speaking Native American people who inhabited parts of coastal North Carolina during the time of early English exploration and colonization.

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Secotan canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Algonquian-speaking people
Native American people
associatedWith Roanoke Colony NERFINISHED
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culture Eastern Woodlands culture area NERFINISHED
documentedBy English explorer John White NERFINISHED
Thomas Harriot NERFINISHED
economy hunting and fishing
maize agriculture
ethnicGroupOf North America NERFINISHED
historicalStatus dispersed and absorbed into other groups after European contact
housing wood and bark dwellings
knownFor contact with early English explorers
involvement in early English colonization attempts
languageFamily Algonquian languages
locatedIn present-day United States NERFINISHED
neighboringGroup Croatan NERFINISHED
Pamlico NERFINISHED
Roanoke tribe NERFINISHED
Weapemeoc NERFINISHED
partOf Carolina Algonquian peoples NERFINISHED
presentInSource Harriot’s "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" NERFINISHED
John White’s watercolors of Virginia Indians
region coastal North Carolina
religion indigenous Algonquian spiritual beliefs
socialOrganization village-based society
subsistence mixed farming and foraging
timePeriod 16th century
Elizabethan era NERFINISHED

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Weapemeoc relatedEthnicGroup Secotan
Neusiok (Neuse) Native American people neighboringPeople Secotan
subject surface form: Neusiok