Weapemeoc
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Weapemeoc |
| Ethnie: | WEAPEMEOC (YEOPIM) |
| Language: | Powhatan |
| Family: | Eastern Algonquian |
| Stock: | Algonquian |
| Phylum: | Algic |
| Macro-Culture: | Eastern Woodlands |
| Speakers | None |
| The Weapemeoc were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe or confederacy. Their territory was bordered by Albemarle Sound on the south, the Atlantic Ocean on the east, about the Virginia border on the north, and the Chowan River on the west excluding Gates County. They were probably destroyed by smallpox, in conflicts with other tribes and/or, absorbed into other cultures. |
| Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages) |
| NC Pasquotank, Perquiman, Poteskeet, Yeopim (5) |
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| Year | History |
| 1585 | Mentioned in the narratives of the Raleigh colony |
| 1662 | Yeopim parted with some of their land |
| 1670 | Smallpox sometime after this year |
| 1701 | Met by Lawson, 1 Yeopim, 40 other warriors |
| Year | Total NC Pop. | Source | |
| 1600 | 2,800 | Mooney estimate | |
| 1700 | 200 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1701 | 200 | Rights estimate | |
| 1800 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Chowanoc, Hatteras, Machapunga, Moratok, Pamilco, Powhatan |
| Weapemeoc Sites: |
| Cultural Anthropology of Indian Villages http://www.lost-colony.com/cultural.html |
| Indian Trader John Lawson's Journal http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6379 |
| 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 |
| Weapemeoc Indian Tribe http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/algonquian/weapemeochist.htm |
| White-De Bry Map of Virginia (1590) http://www.nps.gov/fora/whitede.htm |
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