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Ever since John White found the word “croatoan” carved in that tree, which led to the discovery of the disappearance of the villagers, historians have never been able to figure out what happened to the settlers. One Author, David Beers Quinn, thought that the settlers had all been killed in the early 1600s after moving to the Chesapeake Bay, which is a waterway that stretches from Virginia to Maryland. Quinn suspected that they were killed by the Powhatan Confederacy. Opposing this, Thomas Parramore, a North Carolina historian, believed that the settlers moved westward, not northward to Chesapeake Bay, and were killed after a political struggle with Weapemeoc Indians. One thing most can agree on, though, is that the enigma of what happened to the missing settlers of North Carolina will more than likely always remain a mystery.

Annotated Bibliography

Oakley, Christopher Arris. Keeping the Circle: American Indian Identity in Eastern North Carolina, 1885-2004. Univ of Nebraska Pr, 2007.

The author, Christopher Arris Oakley, summarizes the early history of Native Americans in North Carolina. This book is a reliable source because it goes in depth about the history of different Native American clans and talks about the missing Croatan settlers. I used this source when describing how historians have always and most likely will always disagree on the mystery of the disappearance of the Lost Colony.

Roswell, David. www.croataninstitute.org/about-us/2-uncategorised/37-why-croatan.

The author, David Roswell, describes some of the reasons that the Croatan got the name the “Lost Colony”. This article is reliable because they did research on the topic themselves. They spoke on the forensic evidence that they found. I will use this source when talking about the many reasons that are possible for what happened to the Croatan people.