Moneton

The Moneton were a Native American people of the Kanawha Valley in what is now southern West Virginia; their name means Big Water people. They may have belonged to the Fort Ancient culture of the Ohio valley and were close neighbours of the Tutelo and Manahoac.

English traders first recorded them in 1671, and Gabriel Arthur, sent by Abraham Wood to open the fur trade, visited their principal town in 1674 and left the last contemporary account of them. Their language was never recorded, though it may have been related to Tutelo. Pressure from colonial expansion probably dispersed the Moneton in the late seventeenth century, with survivors merging into the Shawnee and other Piedmont nations.