The Hatteras Indians were a tribe of Native Americans in the United States who lived in the North Carolina Outer Banks.
[2] The name Hatteras was first used by the English explorer John Lawson.
Lawson was writing a book where he mentioned the Hatteras Indians for the first time.
[1][3] The Hatteras first had contact with English settlers, notably John White, in 1587, and were gone by the mid-18th century.
This cost them heavily and many were driven from their lands by enemy tribes.