Coree
The Coree (as Connamox, cores, core Nines, Connamocksocks, Coranine Indians or Neuse River Indians called) was a North American Tribal Culture , originally the peninsulas of the Neuse River in the counties Carteret and Craven in what is now the state of North Carolina on the southeast coast of the United States populated. Possibly the very small tribe belonged to the Algonquin , it was only described by the European settlers in 1701. According to the records of John Lawson , the language of the Coree could not be assigned and had no resemblance to the languages of the Tuscarora , the Algonquin or the Woccon . The name Coree could be derived from the Algonquin name Cwareuuoc . John Lawson, according to which the tribe was significantly decimated by a war with another tribe in 1696, numbered 125 members and assigned them to two settlements: Coranine and Raruta. He once called the tribe Coranine , another time he used the name Connamox .
The Coree took part in the Tuscarora War as allies of the Tuscarora in 1711 , some survivors of the conflict settled in the only remaining village of the Machapunga , Mattamuskeet on Mattamuskeet Lake in today's Hyde County (North Carolina) , until the tribe there presumably died out. Other Coree preferred to stay in the tribal area now known as Carteret County. There they lived largely in isolated and rather hidden places and merged with the white population.
The chief of the descendants of the tribe, Chief Jerry "Turtle" Faircloth, is trying to obtain state recognition of the tribe that are now known as the Faircloth Indians .
See also
List of North American Indian tribes
literature
- Frederick W. Hodge: Handbook of American Indians , 1906.
- Al Pate: Who are the Coree?
- Anthropological Linguistics, Issue 47 (1), pages 1-60, 2005: "Ives Goddard: The indigenous languages of the Southeast. "