Hatteras Indians

The Hatteras Indians were a tribe of Native Americans in the United States who were the earliest inhabitants of the North Carolina Outer Banks. They inhabited a village on what is now called Hatteras Island called Croatoan.

They first had contact with English settlers in 1587 and were gone by the mid 18th century. In the 1711 Tuscarora War, the Hatteras Indians sided with the colonists and fought against the Tuscarora tribe and their allies for the colonists. This cost them heavily and many were driven from their lands by enemy tribes.

The modern-day Roanoke-Hatteras tribe is partially descended from them.