Roanoke Missing
Tuesday August 18, 2009
Schoolchildren across the United States wish they could solve the mystery of 'Croatoan'. This mysterous word was found carved into a surrounding wall-like structure. It, along with the letters CRO carved into a tree, was the only communication that survived in the remains of the colony of Roanoke. On August 18, 1590, John White returned from Great Britain to find the colony deserted and plundered. Many other colonies, however, were more fortunate. They were able to survive and thrive in a often hostile land.
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Their posterity is alive and well here in Robeson County NC, they call themselves Lumbee Indians.
Aye, we Lumbee, I’m part Chipewa on my father’s side, and part Lumbee and Apache or Navaho on my mother’s side due to one of her ancestors being a Sante Fe trader that got hung for horse thieving back in North Carolina are descended from the Roanoak Colonists. Heather Locklear is Lumbee. I’ve visited the site of the Roanoake Colony and it was a moving experience.
I don’t know why there is a debate. Most likely the colony struggled the local Indian tribe took them in and then intermarried. Everyone acts like they were abducted by aliens or something.
I dont understand why this is such a big mystery. To me it is clear that they were attacked by local Narive Americans, and captured or killed and integrated into their captors society. Either that, or Martians took-em?
Geez, I should have read the comments before I posted. I said the same thing as the guy before me. Sorry.
There is a debate because no one knows what happened. Where they captured by the Spanish? It is possible and that possibility is why the Virginia Company was given directions to settle up river, far from the Atlantic. But then if the Spanish took them, why was Croatoan carved? Did the Indians attack? Then where are the bodies and again, why the carving? I think the most logical explanation is that they abandon the colony and went to live with the Croatoans. But then, what happened to the building?