Lost Colony Play vs Lost Colony History

History gets perverted by Hollywood and literature.
The Native American Manteo and Wanchese were both from Cape Hatteras not Roanoke. They were both Croatoans. The play on Roanoke pretends to not know what the word Croatoan even means and cuts Cape Hatteras out of the story completely and lies about everything to make it appear like the Colonist were only on Roanoke. It ignored three prior voyages where the English went to and lived on what now Hatteras Island.

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[freddietz96]

Incredible. I’ve been believing this supernatural “Lost Colony” story all my life—ever since I visited the N. Carolina beaches w/ my parents as a kid (maybe that’s what I get for being a Yankee—or at least of a Yankee family). A regional conflict and English embarrassment of plunder. And the English should have stuck w/ the Native tobacco, rather than transplanting richer Turkish tobacco (more addictive—deadlier).

[Rys2sense]

@freddietz96 all tobacco including the "Turkish tobacco"originally came from the new world.

[proto57]

I have never heard any pretense the carving on the tree was a mystery. The "lost" of the "lost colony" was simply that they did not know why or when the colonists left... whether they were seeking aid after an attack, or were starving, or what. Of course it probably meant they went to Croatia, as you state, yes there was a previous history, which you outline well... I just never heard the misinformation you claim exists. I always knew your version, and never the wrong parts you outline here

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[Rys2sense]

@proto57 Croatoan, it would be impossible to go to Croatia. Why do people replace Croatoan (Native Americans) with Croatia (which is in fucking europe)? Anyway They did know when and why they left and where they went. They went BACK to where they had already beee living and because Ralph Lane had made war on the Secotan and the English were getting their asses kicked.

[ljrow49]

Book by Scott Dawson....any relation?

[Rys2sense]

@ljrow49 yep he's my twin brother. Truth is truth. I'm not the only researcher or truth teller in the family.

[willyrobinson]

Historical revisionism doesn't mean making things up it means challenging consensual established ideas about history. This video has helped me learn something and I thank Rys2sense for it. I was taught this falsehood in my history classes at school.

Much of our history is as Ford Snr. said: "bunk". I encourage further research of this sort b/c it's all a work in progress. The more we know the more we know how little we do know. :) Keep up the good work!

[Monasukapanough]

Thank you for uploading this. How has scott been? You should re upload the live history talks that ya'll used to have uploaded.

[rynmccombs]

Try reading the play before you trash it.. Or seeing it... Or something. To me, you just come across as a hater for no reason.

[Porkchopgirls69]

As with any film, play or historical reenactment, a dose of fiction is added to carry the storyline along. However, the historical inaccuracies you directly fault in Paul Green's script, simply don't exist anywhere within the text of the play. Read the play...or buy a ticket.

[cleric1104]

It also presents scenes of two of the previous voyages and mentions the other one, yet you say that it does not. You seem to have done a large amount of research on the actual history of these colonization efforts but none on the play with which you are so upset. So, I kinda gotta wonder how accurate your info on the actual history might be.

[cleric1104]

At the end of Green's play there is a report that Spaniards have anchored on the other side of the banks and a decision is made to march into the wilderness south to Hatteras to establish a new colony. Nothing about carving anything anywhere.

[cleric1104]

Ummmm... just so you know... there is absolutely no mention of carving Croatoan on a tree, palisade, or anywhere in Paul Green's script for "The Lost Colony". Not gainsaying your research, but your ultimate gripe with the play and its misrepresentation of this act is absolutely nowhere in the play itself. Nor is there any conjecture of any mysterious disappearance in the script.

[zazu27604]

Was just near the outer banks...good info.

[MrBen1160]

very informative thank you