Not all that far-fetched. Many tribes had been decimated by diseases and warfare. They actively sought to add people to their tribe. My 2x great grandfather was actually adopted by the Sioux.
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Dont they conclude what happened like every other year?
The team also found guns, nautical fittings, small cannonballs, and more, they told Fox News Digital.
A plan had been preestablished that if the settlers were to leave the island, they would carve their location into a tree so he would know where they were.
But only remnant of human life left on the island was a carving of the word 'Croatoan' in a palisade, which many believed referred to Croatoan Island, or modern–day Hatteras Island.
White attempted to sail to the other island, but a storm disrupted him and forced him to reroute back to England with no news of the settlers.
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Last I heard it was pretty much proven by DNA they had been absorbed into the local Indian tribe.
Heather Locklear has been proof enough of what happened for a long time now.
At least to me...
I have not followed the lost colony case closely.
But it makes sense that they would have been absorbed into a neighboring Indian tribe.
Otherwise, could they all have died of disease? But then no indication of remains were found, were they? I think the evidence suggests that they all departed, and did not all pass away at that location.
This is one of history’s mysteries.
The colonists violated Star Fleet Prime Directive #1: do not interfere with the natural development of the native civilization.
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I recently saw a documentary on this. The archaeologists even found some graves where Indian tribes were laid out the way European Christians were at the time and of course there were various European implements among one of the friendly tribes at the time. The missing colonists went to a nearby tribe of friendly Indians were they were assimilated.
Interesting. But maybe the real mystery is why they didn’t put much effort into finding them back then. Yes, it was the earliest attempt at colonization and the continent was alien and largely unexplored, but still it took decades before permanent settlements were established in NC and by that time, it would have been all the more impossible to find the survivors.
dm’s a day late & dollar short:
This was revealed YEARS ago...though no ‘researcher’ has ever broached the topic of ‘why’ they left in the first place (I’m pretty sure that I posted my own contribution to that, also years ago).
According to Jamestown colonists and their chroniclers, the powerful Powhatan chiefdom claimed to have massacred the Roanoke colonists
After the Jamestown settlement was founded, its leaders received several accounts regarding the fate of the "Lost Colony" that had vanished from Roanoke Island two decades earlier.
Key details from the accounts:
The alleged massacre: Powhatan told Jamestown leader Captain John Smith that his warriors had killed the Roanoke colonists to prevent them from allying with rivals and encroaching on his land.
The source of the tale: In 1612, colonial secretary William Strachey confirmed this story, claiming that Powhatan's brother-in-law, Machumps, also reported the Roanoke slaughter.
The fate of the survivors: Strachey added that a small number of survivors, including four men, two boys, and one girl, were spared and escaped up the Chowan River. They reportedly came under the protection of a different chief.
Mark
Roanoke Island, and the surrounding area, experienced a serious drought shortly after the settlers arrived in 1587.
I am a little skeptical that the Local Natives would welcome 118 white strangers to share their limited supply of fresh water, native plants, agriculture, and meat protein.
When/if they find all the settlers’ intact graves, that will confirm it. But not until then.