Many of us with very early roots in Eastern NC have been told that we have some Native American blood. That would make sense, since most early settlers were men, most of them did not bring spouses, and there was a shortage of women with European heritage here waiting for them. For those of us with early roots in Pitt County and other counties east of I-95, those ancestors most likely would not have been Cherokee, since that was a Western NC Tribe. In the East, we now have the Haliwars (sp?) in Halifax County (?) and the Lumbees in Robeson Co. (Southeastern NC) I believe both of these tribes are made up of surviving remnants of various other tribes, and were not originally known by their current names. I have been told that there are a couple of other groups - one on the outer banks and one in, perhaps, Bertie County that are made up of people with Native American blood from the northeastern area of NC where most of our ancestors settled. Does anyone know about these last two groups, and if they have any genealogical information that may be helpful to families from Northeastern NC? One of my grandmothers was born in Martin County in 1870 and died in Pitt County in 1938. She was hallucinating when she died and was begging the family members around her to keep the Indians away from her. She did not watch Western movies. Whatever was frightening her was coming from some early life experience, we believe. How recently was there an identifiable community of Native Americans in that area of Eastern NC? What tribe were they from? Jo Prytherch