The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a ...

As the tragic legend goes, British colonists who were settled on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island in 1587 disappeared at some ...

Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan Islands.

The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the first permanent English settlement in the United States.

Scott Dawson has spent decades investigating their disappearance and stands firm on the idea that the group integrated with the Croatoan tribe on Hatteras Island - and has uncovered writings that ...

The son of a family whose roots can be traced back to the Croatoan Indians, he thinks his ancestors have been falsely maligned by the legends that have grown up around the case of the missing ...

The Croatoan were a small Native American tribe located in Dare County, North Carolina, in the 16th century. Some claimed the British settlers abandoned their station and set camp closer to the ...

A new study suggests the Lost Colony of Roanoke assimilated with Native Americans, backed by iron flakes found on Hatteras ...

No single Indian tribe or village could have supported them ... which was then known as Croatoan Island. But, Klingelhofer said, what if they went in another direction? What if some of the ...

A single palisade remained, with the word CROATOAN carved into it (the name of a nearby indigenous tribe). A Hidden Clue Might Solve an American Mystery In the centuries since, the mystery of what ...

They've wondered whether the Croatoan tribe killed the settlers or whether the English moved elsewhere, perhaps to live with members of the Croatoan tribe on what is now called Hatteras Island.