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> the fate of the Roanoke colony What is the prosaic explanation for the Roanoke colony?
by bhickey 3y ago
> the fate of the Roanoke colony
What is the prosaic explanation for the Roanoke colony?
- fwip 3y agoThe colonists, lacking food and supplies to get by on their own, went over and joined the local Native American tribe, the Croatoan. Their descendants are likely now part of the Lumbee tribe.
- nocoiner 3y agoSo weird that they all disappeared! And carved “Croatoan” into a tree before that happened! I cannot imagine where they might have gone.
- Apocryphon 3y agoYeah, regardless of what might have happened to them there, it's pretty obvious that it was the destination of the colonists.
- runjake 3y agoGreat Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony Being a west coaster, I don't recall ever hearing about it. Colonial era Europeans observed that many people removed from European society by Native Americans for substantial periods of time – even if captured or enslaved – were reluctant to return; the reverse was seldom true. Therefore, it is reasonable to postulate that, if the colonists were assimilated, they or their descendants would not seek reintegration with subsequent English settlers.
- tialaramex 3y agoIntegration.