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Secotan
Sign in to savethumb|200px|Watercolor painting by Governor John White (colonist and artist)|John White, c. 1585, of an Algonkin Indian Chief in what is today [[North Carolina. (Manteo)]] The Secotans were one of several groups of Native Americans dominant in the Carolina sound region, between 1584 and 1590, with which English colonists had varying degrees of contact. Secotan villages included the Secotan, Aquascogoc, Dasamongueponke, Pomeiock (Pamlico) and Roanoac. Other local groups included the Chowanoke (including village Moratuc), Weapemeoc, Chesapeake, Ponouike, Neusiok, and Mangoak (Tuscarora), and al
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thumb|200px|Watercolor painting by Governor John White (colonist and artist)|John White, c. 1585, of an Algonkin Indian Chief in what is today [[North Carolina. (Manteo)]] The Secotans were one of several groups of Native Americans dominant in the Carolina sound region, between 1584 and 1590, with which English colonists had varying degrees of contact. Secotan villages included the Secotan, Aquascogoc, Dasamongueponke, Pomeiock (Pamlico) and Roanoac. Other local groups included the Chowanoke (including village Moratuc), Weapemeoc, Chesapeake, Ponouike, Neusiok, and Mangoak (Tuscarora), and all resided along the banks of the Albemarle and Pamlico sounds.
They spoke the Carolina Algonquian language, an Eastern Algonquian language.