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The Roanoke also spelled Roanoac tribe were a Carolina Algonquian-speaking people whose territory comprised present-day Dare County Roanoke Island and part of the mainland at the time of English exploration and colonization. They were one of the numerous Carolina Algonquian tribes which may have numbered 5000-10000 people in total in eastern North Carolina at the time of English encounter.The last known chief of the Roanoke was Wanchese who traveled to England with colonists in 1584.