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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:21 PM Original message |
What do you suppose happened to the original Roanoke Colony? |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. Didn't they find it a few years ago? |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
31. They found the archeological remains... |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
2. Personally, I think they died of starvation or disease. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. yes, and debilitated survivors fled to join the closest tribe, |
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FreedomAngel82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:32 PM Response to Reply #7 |
19. Yes |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:30 PM Response to Reply #7 |
52. Ah, but the surnames live on in that part of NC |
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FreedomAngel82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:30 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. I think so too |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:31 PM Response to Reply #14 |
54. That part of NC has mild winters |
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Thtwudbeme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
3. I think there's a good possibility they pissed off the Lumbee |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:24 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Lots of Colony surnames in the Lumbee community |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:27 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. WOW |
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Thtwudbeme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:29 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I am having a pretty good time with my Native American stuff this |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:29 PM Response to Reply #8 |
51. Actually, in Robeson County,, NC |
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petgoat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
4. Some say it was Jimson Weed ("Jamestown Weed"?) |
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FreedomAngel82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:34 PM Response to Reply #4 |
21. Right |
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Coexist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
50. I think the missing piece in the archaelogical record re: slaughter |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
6. The "mystery" is actually non-existent; it is fiction. |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:29 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. the History Channel did a special on it last night |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:32 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Well, poop! I missed that as well. |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:36 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. here's a bit from their site: |
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MrBenchley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:39 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. I thought that was pretty good.... |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:40 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. looks like they are replaying it |
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MrBenchley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:45 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. I urge anyone interested to watch it... |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:47 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. I haven't seen it, but will watch for it |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 06:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
66. Perhaps a few women and children were assimilated into the tribe, |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
9. Blue eyed Native Americans |
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soleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
10. They were taken by The Others |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:30 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Not to hijack this thread, but what happened last week? |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:31 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. *A HEM* |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:31 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Sorry, CW |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
17. They assimilated with the natives, since the natives knew how to survive. |
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Thtwudbeme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:33 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Well....here's your answer Catwoman!!! All those Historians, |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:37 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. LOLOLOLOLOL |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:39 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. I'd say blow me, but that would just get deleted. |
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Thtwudbeme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:43 PM Original message |
Oh go ahead |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
37. Big words? Which one don't you understand? |
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Thtwudbeme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:59 PM Response to Reply #37 |
42. Let's see, dearie |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:15 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. Wrong. |
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Thtwudbeme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:22 PM Response to Reply #44 |
49. I never said I wasn't an asshole eom |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:44 PM Response to Reply #44 |
58. There's actually alot of evidence they weren't killed |
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petgoat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:51 PM Response to Reply #17 |
38. DNA studies will soon allow questions like this to be answered. |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:21 PM Response to Reply #38 |
47. Columbus was definitely not the first European "discoverer" |
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Lisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 04:51 PM Response to Reply #47 |
64. L'Anse aux Meadows World Heritage Site, Newfoundland |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-22-06 02:09 AM Response to Reply #64 |
75. Regarding early exploration: |
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dr.strangelove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
22. Duh, it was the devil |
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bif (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
24. Abducted by aliens |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
25. Hakim Bey has an idea.... |
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The Sleeper (229 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
28. Well, it depends... |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:53 PM Response to Reply #28 |
40. Bwah! Young Goodman and Goody Bush |
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bjeversole (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-22-06 04:50 AM Response to Reply #40 |
77. I Live On Oak Island... |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-22-06 09:51 AM Response to Reply #77 |
78. Or Francis Bacon or the Templars. |
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FSogol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
32. They voted repub. n/t |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
33. It is pretty much considered a fact down there that Andy Griffith did it |
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melody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:20 PM Response to Reply #33 |
46. Andy Griffith is behind everything down there, I hear |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
36. Here's a little blurb from Archaeology Magazine |
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petgoat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:54 PM Response to Reply #36 |
41. Drought would weigh in on the side of the idea that the |
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Marie26 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
39. Didn't they join the Indians? nt |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
43. they joined the circus |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
45. There is a speculation out there of disease and starvation in |
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melody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
48. Lots of things |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:33 PM Response to Reply #48 |
55. As I said up thread: Heather Locklear's Dad is a Lumbee |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:40 PM Response to Reply #48 |
57. LOL with the Andy Griffith references!!!!! |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
53. I'm 100% sure that they all died. A long time ago. |
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puerco-bellies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
56. Very Simple possibility - Hurricane |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:45 PM Response to Reply #56 |
59. But, the settlement wasn't swept away. |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
60. in 1622 many settlers were killed by Indians at Berkeley Hundred |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 03:06 PM Response to Reply #60 |
61. Don't confuse Roanoke Island in the Carolinas with Roanoke, VA |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
62. Bird Flu |
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Felix Mala (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
63. I read recently that Croatan was well known to the British but |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
65. The past, revisited ..... |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 06:39 PM Response to Reply #65 |
68. what's that saying about curiosity killing the cat? |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:00 PM Response to Reply #68 |
69. The Shinnecock |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:27 PM Response to Reply #69 |
71. Past generations ..... |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 08:33 PM Response to Reply #71 |
72. ROFL!!!!! |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-22-06 09:53 AM Response to Reply #72 |
79. We had |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 08:37 PM Response to Reply #69 |
73. Have you ever seen "Son of the Morning Star"? |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 09:26 PM Response to Reply #73 |
74. In 1975 |
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converted_democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
67. They had a leader like * and he screwed them into ground...n/t |
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NuttyFluffers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
70. It was the Rapture. The rest of us are too late. |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-22-06 03:50 AM Response to Original message |
76. I think they were absorbed |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-22-06 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
80. Have you read about the "Melungeons" ? |
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