Croatan
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For other uses, see Croatan (disambiguation).
The Croatan were a Native American tribe living in the coastal areas of what is now North Carolina in an area that is now Dare County, and encompasses the Alligator River, Croatan Sound, Roanoke Island, and parts of the Outer Banks including Hatteras Island. Now extinct, they were one of the Algonquian peoples. They were on good terms with English settlers of the Roanoke colony, and there has been speculation that the survivors of that disappeared colony joined the Croatan. The Lost Colony Center for Science and Research has excavated English artifacts within the territory of the Croatan tribe, and is conducting a DNA study. The modern Lumbee tribe has claimed descent from the Croatan.
[edit] Literature
- K.I. Blu: Lumbee. Handbook of North American Indians vol. 14: 278-295, Smithsonian Institution, Washington 2004
- B. Fell: Saga America. U.S. Academy of Sciences and Arts & Harward University, Harward 1980
- A.S. Eterovich: Croatia and Croatians, and the Lost Colony. Ragusan Press, San Carlos, Ca. 2003
- T. Hariot, J. White, J. Lawson: A vocabulary of Roanoke. Evolution Publishing, Merchantville 1999
- Th. Ross: American Indians in North Carolina. Karo Hollow Press, South Pines 1999
- G.M. Sider: Lumbee Indian histories. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993
- S.B. Weeks: The lost colony of Roanoke, its fate and survival. Knickbocker Press, New York 1891
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