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(Intro)

In 1580 Sir Walter Raleigh sent English explorers near what would be the Americas. That same time, the Croatan were living on the island of present-day Hatteras and Ocracoke islands. The coroatan people of North Caroline who are alive today live in Cambeerland. Sampson, and Harnett counties.

History:

A scholar of Algonquian linguistics has suggested that the word "Croatan" means "council town" or "talk town," which likely indicates the residence of an important leader and a place where councils were held.

They fished along the northern Outer Banks- but most of their fields and towns were in present day Buxton and Hatteras.

Descendants of the Croatan are known as the Lumbee tribe. In 1880 they tried to obtain Indian tribal recognition. The state acknowledged them as a tribe, however they could not be recognized by the Federal government due to mingling and mixing from other tribes.

The Lost Colony:

One story that gets told is of the white doe. Sallie Cotten wrote a poem called The White Doe: The fate of Virginia Dare: An Indian Legend. In the story she is being courted by two indians and one is magic, and turns her into a deer and tricks the other one into killing her while hunting. Its a fairytale she made up, but the rest of the story takes place there and involves the Croatian Indians. Just one theory that could have happened.

Bibliography:

Annotated Bibliography:

Powell, William S, and Jay Mazzocchi. Encyclopedia of North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Print.

The main idea is to inform readers of the background information on the Croatoan. It explains things happening around the time, and great reference for maps of the land. This information is useful to the background area of the wiki page. It can be used when talking about the settling of the colony too.

Butler, George Edwin. The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina: Their Origin and Racial Status. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. JSTOR,

The main idea is the give readers an understanding of the Croatan Indians of Sampson county. This was useful because all the members still known from their days, live in that county now.