Moratok
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Moratok |
| Ethnie: | MORATOK |
| Language: | Powhatan |
| Family: | Eastern Algonquian |
| Stock: | Algonquian |
| Phylum: | Algic |
| Macro-Culture: | Eastern Woodlands |
| Speakers | None |
| The Moratok were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe. They were apparently located well up the Roanoke in south central Virginia. They vanished early at a time and place when and where inter-tribal warfare was taking place. |
| Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages) |
| VA (1) |
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| Year | History |
| 1585 | Mentioned in narratives of Raleigh expeditions, population reported as large |
| Year | Total VA Pop. | Source | |
| 1585 | 1,000 | Raleigh description | |
| 1700 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1800 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Chowanoc, Hatteras, Machapunga, Pamilco, Powhatan, Weapemeoc |
| Moratok Sites: |
| North Carolina Indian Tribes http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/northcarolina/ |
| Powhatan Dictionary http://www.wicocomico-indian-nation.com/pages/dictionary.html |
| Powhatan Language http://www.native-languages.org/powhatan.htm |
| Powhatan Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=pim |
| Powhatan Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=pim |
| White-De Bry Map of Virginia (1590) http://www.nps.gov/fora/whitede.htm |
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