Complex sentence: The Machapunga (meaning bad dust or much dirt) were a very small Native American tribe of Algonquian descent, now disappeared, who once occupied a coastal area of northeastern North Carolina, living in a village called Mattamuskeet on the shore of Lake Mattamuskeet.
Split into simpler sentences: The Machapunga (meaning bad dust or much dirt) were a very small Native American tribe of Algonquian descent. They once occupied a coastal area of northeastern North Carolina, living in a village called Mattamuskeet on the shore of Lake Mattamuskeet.