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| '''Croatoan Island''' is the name used by 1585-1587 ] settlers for ] or an island near ], ], ]. It is speculated that the ] might have fled there. Reasons given for this include the colonists' friendship with ], a ] of Croatoan Island, and a carving of the word "C-R-O-A-T-O-A-N" into a post of the fort (and "C-R-O" into a nearby tree), ostensibly to let ] know where they had fled when he returned in 1590. White was unable to search Croatoan Island because a ] hit the outer banks of North Carolina and blew his fleet to sea. After the storm abated, the fleet was low on provisions and their ship's anchor had been lost so they decided to return to ]. | |||
| Upon returning to England, White was never able to raise sufficient funds or provisions to return to America again. In 1709, English explorer ] visited the ], descendants of the Croatoan Indian tribe. Lawson had written a book where he described several of their ancestors were white people with light eyes and could "talk in a book as we do". In the 1880s, Hamilton MacMillan of North Carolina suggested another theory; he lived near ], home of the ] Indians, who claimed their ancestors came from "Roanoke in Virginia". According to MacMillan, the Pembroke Indians could speak English and many of them had the same last names of the initial colonists. MacMillan's findings were published in an 1888 pamphlet. | |||
| Many historians now lend credence to yet another theory: After White departed, the colonists split into two factions with one faction moving into ] to live in the southern side of the bay with the friendly ]. Threatened by the presence of white men, ] (it is unclear whether or not Powhatan was from a neighboring tribe of the Chesapeake) claimed to have killed most of the colonists, offering proof to White in the form of objects the colonists possessed. Some scholars believe the remaining faction was assimilated into the tribe of Indians. | |||
| Croatoan has become an emblem of an intentional return to a more primitive, or more free, way of life. In this sense, the phrase "Gone to Croatoan" has been used by ] and, more generally, ]. A variation on this phrase, "Gone to Croatan," was the title of a collection of essays which explored the theme of "dropping out" of civilization and "returning to" the wilderness, which was edited by ] and ]. | |||
| ==Media appearances== | |||
| Harlan Ellison references Croatoan in his 1975 story of the same name "Croatoan." | |||
| The word also appears at the end of the music video for the song "Jars," by the rock group ]. "Croatoan" is written on a piece of paper tied to a brick, which the main character of the video discovers just before the car he is in explodes. | |||
| In two ] episodes the word Croatoan is used to describe a virus that turns humans into zombie-like demons. | |||
| In the graphic novel "100 Bullets" by Brian Azzarello, CROATOAN is the activation word to bring members of a hit squad back to their previous frame of consciousness before they were brainwashed. The book also goes on to explain that the ancient members of the same hit squad were responsible for killing everyone on Roanoke island. And the mark they left behind so the high ranking members of government around the world would know it was them was CROATOAN. | |||
| Also used in the movie ]. | |||
| In the ] '']'' written by ], in a dream, the townspeople see themselves walking into the sea two-by-two with the word Croatoan carved on their heads. | |||
| In the book Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz the Croatoan were also referenced repeatedly. This book is based on the Roanoke incident however the colonists were supposed vampires who were being hunted by a croatoan ( a vampire that drinks vampire's blood and takes over them). | |||
| In ] episode "Twilight of the Idols" Captain Hunt refers to a colony that mysteriously disappeared leaving only a sign reading "Croatoan" | |||
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