The Bear River Indians were a group mentioned by Lawson and associated with the Algonquian tribes. They may have been a part of the Machapunga. Rights (1947) called them the Bear River or Bay River Indians.

Lawson (1709) gives the name of their town as Raudauqua-quark and estimates the number of fighting at fifty (50). Mooney (1928) places them with the Pamlico in his estimate as of the year 1600 and gives the two a population of 1,000.