. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. surprised — maybe stunned — if his ECU team actually finds evidence of the Lost Colony. Like most histori- ans, he believes the forsaken colonists traveled to southern Chesapeake Bay. There, they met an untimely demise at the hands of the Powhatans, the powerful confederacy headed by Pocahontas's father. This is the story told by the Jamestown colony's secretary William Strachey, writing in his Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania in 1612. The colonists may have gone to Croatan briefly, however. Mant
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. surprised — maybe stunned — if his ECU team actually finds evidence of the Lost Colony. Like most histori- ans, he believes the forsaken colonists traveled to southern Chesapeake Bay. There, they met an untimely demise at the hands of the Powhatans, the powerful confederacy headed by Pocahontas's father. This is the story told by the Jamestown colony's secretary William Strachey, writing in his Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania in 1612. The colonists may have gone to Croatan briefly, however. Manteo, one of two Native Americans who visited London with Sir Arthur Barlowe in 1584, was a Croatan, and his mother was head of the Croatan chiefdom. Manteo aligned with the English when other villages — Aquascogoc, Dasemunkepeuc and the Secotan — joined forces against the Roanoke colonists in 1587. Having treated the Native Americans harshly during their brief sojourn at Roanoke, the English. had very few native friends or allies. It would not be surprising if they looked to Croatan for temporary sanctuary. Even if Phelps doesn't solve the mystery of the Lost Colony, the Croatan dig promises to cast piercing new light on more interest- ing mysteries about the coastal Algonkians and their 17th-century encounters with the English. The English had little presence in North Carolina for 60 years after the Roanoke colonists disappeared. After 1650, however, the English pushed the colonial frontier south from Virginia. Conflicts arose quickly between the natives and newcomers over hunting, fishing, grazing and land rights. Early on, the Algonkians and their Iroquoian neighbors success- fully resisted English intrusions. On the eve of the 18th century, they still outnumbered the European colonists. But they soon succumbed to small- pox, influenza and other Old World diseases. The Algonkian chiefdoms had all been destroyed or subjugated by English forces by the end of the Tuscaro
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