MORATOK IS A PLACE NAME BUT THE MEANING IS UNKNOWN. THEY BELONGED TO THE LINGUISTIC STOCK AND WERE CLOSELY RELATED TO THE OTHER ALGONQUIN TRIBES TO BE DESCENDED FROM THE ALGONQUIAN NEUSIOK INDIANS. THEY ARE LOCATED ON LITTLE COHAREE RIVER. THE COHAREE NEUSIOK ARE 1 OF 8 STATE RECOGNIZED NATIVE TRIBES IN NORTH CAROLINA. THEIR POPULATION HAS STEADILY INCREASED FROM 755 IN 1970 TO 2700 IN 2007. THE STATE RECOGNIZED THE COHAREE TRIBE IN 1971 IN CLINTON, NORTH CAROLINA. IN 1975 THE TRIBE CHARTERED THE COHAREE INTERTRIBAL COUNCIL TO SERVE AS AN ORGANIZATION TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH, EDUCATION, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC WELL BEING OF THE TRIBE. IT IS AN OLD SCHOOL THAT SERVED THE TRIBE FROM 1942 - 1966. BY 1964 THE CIVAL RIGHTS ACT SAID THEY ENDED LEGAL RACIAL SEGREGATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
THEY ELECTED THEIR FIRST CHIEF IN 1910.THEY HAVE 7 TRIBAL COUNCIL MEMBERS. MANY ARE AFFILIATED WITH CHURCHES. THEY HAVE INTERMARRIED WITH LUMBEE AND TUSCORORA. THEY OCCUPIED WHAT IS NOW THE CENTRAL PORTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. IN THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY THE COHAREE LIVED ALONG THE COHAREE RIVER.
DURING 1730 AND 1745 INTERTRIBAL CONFLICTS AROSE. THE ENGLISH COLONISTS CAUSED MANY WARS. THE NEUSIAK FOUND SOME TRIBES CAPTURING MEMBERS OF TRADITIONAL ENEMIES AND SELLING THEM AS SLAVES TO COLONISTS. MEASLES AND SMALL POX HAD NO NATURAL IMMUNITY AND THEY DISRUPTED COMMUNITIES.
MANY INDIANS INCLUDING THE NEUSIOKS, SOUGHT REFUGE FROM COLONIAL INCURSION. DURING THE 1800'S THE COHAREE HELD THE RIGHT TO USE FIREARMS AND VOTE IN ELECTIONS. BUT THE 1830'S BROUGHT EVENTS THAT STRESSED THEM. BY THIS TIME CERTAIN EVENTS REDUCED THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS. THE FEDERAL INDIAN REMOVAL POLICY OF 1830'S FORCED TRIBES TO MOVE WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. AFTER 1835 THEY, AS WELL AS BLACKS, LOST THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE AND BEAR ARMS.
IN 1859 THE COHAREE ESTABLISHED THEIR OWN SCHOOL AND THE STATE STOPPED SUPPORTING THEM IN 1917 THE EAST CAROLINA INDIAN SCHOOL WAS BUILT.
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