 The Chowanoke lived north of the Neuse River & the Croatan south or it.They had (along with the Powhatan, Piscataway & Nanticoke further north) adopted a governing system whereas there would be a largely patriarchal society living under the rule of several local chiefs who all answered to a single, higher ruling chief & formed a council with him to discuss political affairs.This was different from the more common Algonquian approach, which was more of a Socialist style of governing without a true, full-time government.