A lot of the last names of the Lumbee are the same as last names of
many of the lost colonists, too. It may be a "white thing", or just a
thing of various experts ignoring what ordinary folk already know.
Until a $200,000 study has been done, of course, confirming that the
ordinary folk were right all along. The rangers who have seen a few
mountain lions in the south end of the Shenandoah National Park; the
many people over the years who have insisted they've still seen Ivory
Billed Woodpeckers. And etc.

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On Jan 14, 2007, at 1:15 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> The girl who used to cut my hair was a Lumbee Indian and she told
> me that
> present day Lumbees know exactly and without a doubt that the
> Roanoke Island
> colonists simply wandered off and joined the local Indian tribes
> and became
> part of  their culture and life and families. She said that it had
> always
> been a "Duh" issue and that if "white folk" hadn't been so
> disdainful of the
> opinions of the Indians who have tried, repeatedly, over the years
> to tell
> the stories of  what happened then there would be no "mystery".
> Makes sense to me.
> DFM
> in York County
>
>
>

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