Croatan
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The Croatan are a Native American people historically associated with coastal North Carolina, often linked in legend to the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke.
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American people
ⓘ
indigenous people of the United States ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
English colonization of North America
ⓘ
Lost Colony of Roanoke NERFINISHED ⓘ Roanoke Island NERFINISHED ⓘ word "CROATOAN" carved on Roanoke palisade ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| ethnonym | Croatoan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulture |
agriculture
ⓘ
coastal fishing traditions ⓘ hunting and gathering ⓘ |
| hasDemographicEvent |
population decline after European contact
ⓘ
possible assimilation into other Native and local communities ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
fishing
ⓘ
maize cultivation ⓘ trade with European settlers ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalStatus |
affected by English and later American expansion
ⓘ
recognized as a distinct tribe in some colonial records ⓘ subject to European contact and disease ⓘ |
| hasLegendOrMyth | connection to the Lost Colony of Roanoke ⓘ |
| hasNotableTopic | theory that some Lost Colonists assimilated into the tribe ⓘ |
| hasSettlementPattern | villages along the Outer Banks and nearby mainland ⓘ |
| hasUncertainty | exact fate and continuity of the group are debated by scholars ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | coastal North Carolina ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Algonquian languages ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Dare County, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hatteras Island region NERFINISHED ⓘ North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Algonquian-speaking peoples of the Atlantic coast ⓘ |
| presentInNarrativeWork |
local North Carolina folklore
ⓘ
popular histories of the Lost Colony ⓘ |
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Lumbee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
other Algonquian-speaking tribes of the Carolina coast ⓘ |
| religion | indigenous North American spiritual traditions ⓘ |
| studiedBy |
anthropologists
ⓘ
archaeologists ⓘ historians of early America ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
16th century
ⓘ
17th century ⓘ |
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