Chowanoke
Sign in to saveThe Chowanoc, also Chowanoke, were an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe who historically lived near the Chowan River in North Carolina. At the time of the first English contact in 1580s, they were a large and influential tribe and remained so through the mid-17th century. In 1677, after the Chowanoc War, English colonists set aside a reservation for the tribe near Bennett Creek.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Chowanoc
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- File:North carolina algonkin.png
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- 16th-century territoriesof the North Carolina Algonquian
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- Chowan River, North Carolina; later Catawba River, South Carolina
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- Extinct as a tribe
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- 1820
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- Tribal religion
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- Algonquian
- Ethnic group.related
- Coree, Machapunga, Weapemeoc
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- 16th century
- 17th century
- 18th century
- 19th century
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The Chowanoc, also Chowanoke, were an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe who historically lived near the Chowan River in North Carolina. At the time of the first English contact in 1580s, they were a large and influential tribe and remained so through the mid-17th century. In 1677, after the Chowanoc War, English colonists set aside a reservation for the tribe near Bennett Creek.
The Chowanoc suffered high mortality due to infectious disease, including a smallpox epidemic in 1696. By 1733 descendants of the Chowanoc had assimilated with the Tuscarora. In 1775, James Adair, an Irish-born trader and historian, noted ‘Chowan’ as a language still spoken within the Catawba Nation in South Carolina. The Chowanoc are academically considered to have ceased to exist as an independent entity by, at the latest, 1820.