User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
cores- Plural of core
Verb
cores- third-person singular of core
Portuguese
Noun
cores f|p- Plural of cor
Extensive Definition
The Coree (also Connamox, Cores, Corennines,
Connamocksocks, Coranine Indians, Neuse River Indians) were a very
small
Native American tribe, now amalgamated, who once occupied a
coastal area of southeastern North
Carolina in the area now covered by
Carteret and
Craven Counties. They were not described by Europeans until
1701, by which time their population had been decimated in a war,
leaving them with as few as 125 members.
The Coree were allied with the Tuscarora,
and in 1711
they participated in the Tuscarora
War. By 1715, some merged with
the remaining members of the nearby Machapunga and
settled in the Machapunga's single village, Mattamuskeet, on the
shore of Lake
Mattamuskeet in
Hyde County. Other Coree remained in Carteret county
(especially in isolated areas such as
Indian Beach,
Atlantic Beach,
Harkers Island-formerly known as Craney Island, Core Creek,
and swamp lands) and became amalgamated with the white
population.
Chief Jerry "Turtle" Faircloth has made attempts
to gain government recognition for the descendants of the Coree
(referred to now as the "Faircloth Indians").Carlon
(talk)
23:26, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Language
James Mooney
speculated that they were related to the Cherokee without
convincing evidence. They spoke a language that was not
intelligible with Tuscarora, Carolina
Algonquian, or Woccon as evidenced
in a statement by John Lawson
in 1709. However, the name Coree may be the singular form of the
Carolina Algonquian name Cwareuuoc.
External links
Bibliography
- Goddard, Ives. (2005). The indigenous languages of the Southeast. Anthropological Linguistics, 47 (1), 1-60.
cores in Croatian: Coree