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Hello everyone!
I’m new to the forum, I’ve been a quiet lurker for sometime now. Well, I have a few questions about my ancestry.:)
I was told a few years ago that I had Native ancestry on my father’s side of the family. Now although I do not associate with him or his relatives, as I’ve gotten older, the desire to connect with them in general (the Arapahoes) and their culture has gotten stronger. People always ask me, “What are you?” and “Are you asian/Native?” As I’ve grown up, I can understand why people question it because I’m starting to look more like them with the cheekbones and eyes! I know this is ‘Saponitown’ but do any of you have information on this tribe that somehow ended up in from North Carolina? I’m aware that they were originally from Wyoming, Oklohoma and the like. I was told that my great-grandmother (his mother’s mother) was of that tribal group. My father is from Aurora, NC(I believe :confused: ) and his family members(some of them) are from a small town called Chocowinity and from there you enter Washington, NC or ‘Lil’ Washington'(Beaufort County) as some people call it. Almost everyone from that town have the last name Moore( which I found out is an Arapahoe surname), as do I. They also are very light-skinned with light eyes and resemble the Arapahoes from other states. From my research, they apparently were close alliances with the Cheyenne and Shoshone.
The only information I have from both my mother and my father is their names 🙁 .
Great-grandmother : Idessa Moore
Great-grandfather: Bannon Moore (they both had the same last name when they married.)
If you have any websites or other information I could use, please let me know!
-Thanks!:D
Bonner Moor/Moore’s line goes back to at least 1830 in Beaufort Co., NC.
Moore is not a unique surname among many different Indian people.
Maybe it was your Mother’s line that was Arapahoe?
Bill
Bill Childs wrote: Bonner Moor/Moore’s line goes back to at least 1830 in Beaufort Co., NC.
Moore is not a unique surname among many different Indian people.
Maybe it was your Mother’s line that was Arapahoe?
Bill
Hi Bill.:)
Yes, I’m sure it wasn’t in my mother’s line. My mother is Black-American with little to no Native blood in her lineage. Moore might not be necessarily a common name, but I’m sure some of them have to have it. My great-grandmother,Idessa,was half Native and Black-American, so she probably got Moore from her father’s side who was more than likely Black. As for my great-grandfather, I have the slightest clue as to what his ethnicity is. As I stated, I’m not too familiar with my father’s relatives. It’s so many of them. They practically own Beaufort lol. Most of the people on his side have that last name along with Smith though. Thanks!
I’m going to hazard a guess here, which may be completely off base. There is a small village in neighboring Pamlico County, NC, called Arapahoe., and I believe there was a mixed race enclave in that general area around the time of the civil war. It may be POSSIBLE that your father’s ancestors came from this area, hence the name “Arapahoe Indian”
Having said that, I would be the first to say that stranger things have happened than to have actual western Arapahoe individuals show up on the east coast.
Just an idea.
According to US Genweb, Pamlico was formed in 1872 from part of Beaufort, which may add to the connection.
Forest wrote: I’m going to hazard a guess here, which may be completely off base. There is a small village in neighboring Pamlico County, NC, called Arapahoe., and I believe there was a mixed race enclave in that general area around the time of the civil war. It may be POSSIBLE that your father’s ancestors came from this area, hence the name “Arapahoe Indian”
Having said that, I would be the first to say that stranger things have happened than to have actual western Arapahoe individuals show up on the east coast.
Just an idea.
Hi Forest,
Yeah, you sound like my mother lol. She said something similar to that not too long ago actually. I looked that up, and came to that same conclusion. It would be kind of odd to have Arapahoe people just show up in eastern NC wouldn’t it? That was confusing me this whole time. So there was a mixed race enclave? Wow, I didn’t know that. Were they tri-racial isolates? I ask that because both of them had the same last name,so that might’ve been possible. I used to always wonder if they were called Arapahoe because there’s a town here called that, or whether they were an actual tribe from the west. I’ve also read somewhere that that area was named Arapahoe after a race horse or something :confused: . I don’t know, there are a lot of theories out there…But I’m learning 🙂 .
I knew a western Arapaho lady in Nashville TN who was a recent transplant (and seriously beautiful, by the way). She was married, so I just know her husband’s name. The ones I met out west had more Indian-sounding names (in English), like Kills Plenty, and Shakes Spear… I’ve always liked that one.
PappyDick wrote: I knew a western Arapaho lady in Nashville TN who was a recent transplant (and seriously beautiful, by the way). She was married, so I just know her husband’s name. The ones I met out west had more Indian-sounding names (in English), like Kills Plenty, and Shakes Spear… I’ve always liked that one.
That’s the exact problem I seem to be having. I know the paternal last names but not the maternal. I think my great-granny’s last name might’ve been Moore because of her own father being Black. I don’t know, I’m trying guys lol.:p
Okay I’m getting warmer–I think :confused:
Got this from WhiteMoonRaven.com. I know I said nothing about the Coree and other tribes, but these were apparently tribes in NC that are associated with the language, which then is associated with the Arapahoe people of the west. However, there are different variations of the Algonquian languages. They vary across the US.
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Bear River Indians. A body of Indians mentioned by Lawson and associated with Algonquian tribes. They may have been a part of the Machapunga (q. v.). Rights (1947) calls them the Bear River or Bay River Indians. Lawson (1709) gives the name of their town as Raudauqua-quank and estimates the number of their fighting men at 50. Mooney (1928) places them with the Pamlico in his estimate as of the year 1600 and gives the two a population of 1,000. (See also California for another tribe of the same name.)
Chowanoc. Meaning in Algonquian “(people) at the south.”
- Connections.
- —The Chowanoc belonged to the Algonquian linguistic family and were evidently most nearly allied to the other North Carolina Algonquians.
Hatteras. Meaning unknown.
- Connections.
- —The Hatteras belonged to the Algonquian linguistic family.
- Location. —Among the sandbanks about Cape Hatteras east of Pamlico Sound and frequenting Roanoke Island.
Coree, or Coranine. Meaning unknown.
- Connections.
- —As the final stage of the Coree existence was passed with an Algonquian tribe, some have thought that the affiliations of this people were also Algonquian. On the other hand Lawson (1960) notes that their language and that of a tribe to the north were mutually intelligible and there is reason for thinking that this northern tribe belonged to the Iroquois Confederacy. At least the Coree were closely associated in many ways with the Iroquoian Tuscarora.
You can go to
and key in city: Arapahoe
and state: NC
for an idea as to where it is on the north side of Pamlico Sound.
Washington NC is northwest of there.
New Bern is westerly of Arapahoe.
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