Weapemeoc

Weapemeoc Indians

1 Comment / Native American, North Carolina / 2 minutes of reading

Last Updated on October 18, 2013 by Dennis Weapemeoc Tribe: Meaning unknown, but evidently a place name. Also called: Yeopim, a shortened and more usual form. Weapemeoc Connections. The Weapemeoc were almost certainly of the Algonquian linguistic family and related to the Powhatan Indians the north and the Chowan, Machapunga, and Pamlico to the south. […]

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Weapemeoc Tribe

1 Comment / Native American, North Carolina / 1 minute of reading

Last Updated on February 20, 2012 by Dennis Weapemeoc Indians. An Algonquian (?) tribe met by Raleigh’s colonists in 1584-89, occupying the territory north of Albemarle Island, North Carolina, including probably most of what is now Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, and Perquimans counties. Their chief town, of the same name, seems to have been in Pasquotank

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