A Roanoke Story

In the summer of 1587, 115 English men, women, and children disappeared from the eastern shores of what is now called the United States of America, in northern North Carolina, leaving not a button, nor shoe, nor note, only some ambiguous carvings on trees, an incident commonly referred to as "The Mystery of the Roanoke Colony." A Roanoke Story visits this unsolved puzzle from the perspective of the Native American people who watched the ships come into their bay, a people who had lived on this shore since the beginning of history: the Roanoke. This simple change of point of view turns common myths on their heads, and guides us to confront the true beginnings of European colonization.