# Coree

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{{Short description|Extinct Native American tribe in North Carolina}}
{{About|the Native American tribe|the rural community in New South Wales|Coree, New South Wales|the peninsula|Korea}}
<!--Corée is Korea in French-->
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2012}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Coree
| image            = File:The Carte of all the Coast of Virginia by Theodor de Bry 1585 1586.jpg
| caption          = 1585 map by [Theodor de Bry](/source/Theodor_de_Bry) with ''Cwareuuoc'' village in top left corner along Neuse River
| population       = ''extinct as a tribe<br/>merged into the [Tuscaroras](/source/Tuscaroras)''<ref name=rountree/>
| regions          = [North Carolina](/source/North_Carolina)
| region1          = 
| region2          = 
| pop1             = 
| ref1             = 
| region3          = 
| religions        = Native American
| languages        = Iroquois (possibly [Tuscarora](/source/Tuscarora_language) dialect)
| related          = [Tuscarora](/source/Tuscarora_people)
}}
The '''Coree''' were a very small Native American tribe, who once occupied a coastal area south of the [Neuse River](/source/Neuse_River)<ref name=Mook>{{cite journal|last1=Mook|first1=Maurice A.|title=Algonquian Ethnohistory of the Carolina Sound|journal=Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences|date=June 15, 1944|volume=34|issue=6|pages=181–228|url=http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jmack/algonqin/mook3.htm|access-date=June 30, 2014|archive-date=September 1, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150901083512/http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jmack/algonqin/mook3.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> in southeastern [North Carolina](/source/North_Carolina) in the area now covered by [Carteret](/source/Carteret_County%2C_North_Carolina) and [Craven](/source/Craven_County%2C_North_Carolina) counties. Early 20th-century scholars were unsure of what language they spoke,<ref name=Webb>[http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/algonquian/coreehist.htm Coree Indian Tribe], in Frederick Webb Hodge, ''Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico'', Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1906, carried on Access Genealogy, accessed Mar 18, 2010</ref> but the coastal areas were mostly populated by [Iroquois](/source/Iroquois) and [Algonquian](/source/Algonquian_peoples) peoples.

==History==
The Coree were not described by English [colonists](/source/colonists) until 1701, by which time their population had already been reduced to as few as 125 members, likely due to epidemics of [infectious disease](/source/infectious_disease) and warfare.  In the early 18th century, the Coree and several other tribes were allied with the [Iroquoian](/source/Iroquoian) [Tuscarora](/source/Tuscarora_(tribe)) against the colonists.  In 1711, they participated in the [Tuscarora War](/source/Tuscarora_War), trying to drive out the English settlers. The Native Americans were unsuccessful and suffered many fatalities.

By 1715, surviving Coree merged with the remaining members of the nearby Algonquian-speaking [Machapunga](/source/Machapunga) and settled in their single village of [Mattamuskeet](/source/Mattamuskeet) in present-day [Hyde County](/source/Hyde_County%2C_North_Carolina).<ref name=hodge349>Hodge, [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Handbook_of_American_Indians_North_of_Me/t9Y_AAAAYAAJ ''Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico''], p. 349.</ref><ref name=Webb/> This was on the shore of [Lake Mattamuskeet](/source/Lake_Mattamuskeet).<ref name=hodge349/>

The Coree soon left the Machapunga and joined the [Tuscaroras](/source/Tuscaroras).<ref name=rountree>{{cite book |last1=Rountree |first1=Helen C. |title=Manteo's World: World Native American Life in Carolina's Sound Country Before and After the Lost Colony |date=2021 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |location=Chapel Hill |isbn=9781469662947 |page=129 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M8_9DwAAQBAJ}}</ref>

==Language==
{{Infobox language
| name             = Coree
| nativename       = 
| region           = North Carolina
| extinct          = 18th century
| family           = unclassified
| familycolor      = American
| iso3             = none
| linglist         = 075
| glotto           = none
| states           = [United States](/source/United_States)
| ethnicity        = Coree
}}

The [ethnographer](/source/ethnographer) [James Mooney](/source/James_Mooney) speculated that the Coree were related to the [Iroquoian](/source/Iroquoian)-speaking [Cherokee](/source/Cherokee), but he did not have convincing evidence. According to limited colonial reports, they spoke a language that did not appear to be mutually intelligible with any of the three major language stocks ([Carolina Algonquian](/source/Carolina_Algonquian), [Iroquoian](/source/Iroquoian) Tuscarora, and Woccon, possibly [Waccamaw](/source/Waccamaw), to [John Lawson](/source/John_Lawson_(explorer)), who described Coree after recording vocabularies of the other three.<ref>''Handbook of North American Indians'' (2004, {{ISBN|0160723000}})</ref>

On the other hand, the Coree occupied territory that was historically mostly that of [Tuscaroras](/source/Tuscarora_people), which suggests they were affiliated with these peoples, whom they ultimately merged into.

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last1=Hodge |first1=Frederick Webb |title=Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico |date=1912 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9Y_AAAAYAAJ}}
* Ives Goddard. (2005). "The Indigenous Languages of the Southeast", ''Anthropological Linguistics'', ''47'' (1), 1–60.
* Ruth Y. Wetmore (1975), "First on the Land: The North Carolina Indians" .

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Category:Native American tribes in North Carolina
Category:Carteret County, North Carolina
Category:Craven County, North Carolina
Category:Hyde County, North Carolina
Category:Extinct languages of North America
Category:Extinct Native American tribes
Category:Unclassified languages of North America

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