Manteo (Native American leader)
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Manteo was a Croatan Native American, and was a member of the local tribe that befriended the English explorers who landed at Roanoke Island in 1584. Though many stories claim he was a chief, it is understood that his mother was actually the principal leader of the tribe. This leadership would not have automatically passed down to her children as many English at the time may have assumed.
Manteo (Native American leader)
Thomas Harriot, who translated and learned the Carolina Algonquian language from Wanchese and Manteo.
The village of Secoton on Roanoke Island, painted by Governor John White c.1585
Engraving purported to be of Manteo, from The White Doe: the fate of Virginia Dare; an Indian legend (1901), but actually extracted from Harriot, Thomas (1590) Plate VII, captioned "A Chief Lord of the Roanoke"
Croatan
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The Croatan were a small Native American ethnic group living in the coastal areas of what is now North Carolina. They might have been a branch of the larger Roanoke people or allied with them.
Croatan
Governor John White returned to Roanoke in 1590 to find the word "Croatoan" carved on a tree.