Category: 16. Origins of the tribe

508. Weeks, Stephen B. “The Lost Colony of Roanoke: Its fate and survival.” Papers of the American Historical Association 5.4 (1891): 439-480. Summarized in Annual Report of the American Historical Association 1890: 97-98. Reprinted as a separate; New York: Knickerbocker, 1891. Rpt. in McPherson (entry 49), Exhibit CC.

Full text: The 1891 reprint is available at:
http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/item.aspx?id=wet

One of the earliest and, due to Weeks’ subsequent regard as a historian, most cited arguments for the Lost Colony theory. The Croatans were “fixed in their present homes as early as 1650.” Cites the history, migrations, and accomplishments of the tribe, then connects the Lost Colonists to the Croatans using maps and written accounts. Other arguments are based on Croatan traditions, character, disposition, spoken language, and family names.

This annotation first appeared in The Lumbee Indians: An Annotated Bibliography (McFarland, 1994), by Glenn Ellen Starr.

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