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« Courtroom fallout from US Atty firings | Main | Very disgusting »

Finding the "Lost Colony"

Posted by David Hardy · 19 June 2007 10:48 AM

Researchers propose to use DNA testing to find find descendants of the Lost Colony at Roanoke.

I wonder why the story omits where you find likely descendants. Among the local Indian tribes, of course. As I recall there is one tribe which has members with blonde hair, beards, and English names that go back centuries. When the supply ships returned, they found "Croatan" carved on the log wall. The arrangement had been that if the colonists relocated, they would carve their destination there, and put a cross above it if they relocated under compulsion. There was no cross, and the Croatans were a tribe to the north. The message was simple: they'd voluntarily gone with the Croatans. No one really made a search for the colonists until decades later, by which point the tribe had moved inland. I'm banking they starved out, the Croatans took them in, and they intermarried and became tribal members. More data.

3 Comments | Leave a comment

Jonas Salk | June 19, 2007 11:58 AM | Reply

While not Indian in the least, I have always been interested in "lost" stories such as these, where otherwise drastically different ethnic groups end up lost elsewhere in the world and are found later. Reminds me of a similar situation with the so-called "Lost Romans" in north-central China.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/02/wroman02.xml

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/dna-tests-for-chinas-legionary-lore/2007/02/02/1169919531024.html

Windy Wilson | June 19, 2007 4:57 PM | Reply

I had never heard the business about the cross, but that was always the theory that held up the best. I had also heard about the "Lost Romans" in China as well.

Letalis | June 20, 2007 8:25 PM | Reply

Blonde haired, blue eyed Indians with English names? They are called "Cherokees."

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