Hatteras people

The name Hatteras was first used by the English explorer John Lawson. Lawson was writing a book where he mentioned the Hatteras for the first time. Although the meaning of Hatteras is unknown, == History ==

The Hatteras first had contact with English settlers, notably John White, in 1587, and were gone by the mid-18th century. During the 1711 Tuscarora War, the Hatteras sided with the colonists and fought against the Tuscarora and their allies for the colonists. This cost them heavily and many were driven from their lands by enemy tribes. It is claimed that some descendants of the Hatteras may be part of the Lumbee community, but historian Karen Blu states that this assumption is speculative, and based on documentation of which tribes had lived in the area before, and that there are no firm links between them and the Lumbee. == Language ==

The Hatteras spoke a language in the Algonquian language family. == Notes ==