The SCOOP: Tuscaroras worked The Lost Colonists at their copper mines

 Excerpt from Strachey's text in The Historie of Travaile into Virginia concerning The Lost Colonists working as Tuscaroras' coppersmiths:


Bear in mind that Croatan is Hatteras is Tuscarora, and Roanoak is a Tuscarora trading post and "mayde" is maid is female.

Why does this matter? 

Because the Tuscarora legacy has been desecrated by conquerors' misconceptions, misspellings, derogatory language that drove further angst against the Natives and continues in the 21st Century as the friendly NC Tuscaroras seek justice from under the dominant Lumbees.

For example: Excerpt from The Exsanguination of the Second Society: Scholarly Historical Fiction Relating to Robeson County, North Carolina’s Tuscarora:

“They changed their name in 1885 and these same people shop for new identities all the time up in Washington. The Lumbee claim that the Tuscarora are a “splinter group” of their tribe when all along, a lot of ‘em are Tuscarora. Did you know that the tribe once tried to claim that they were Tuscarora in an earlier hearing and were denied? ⁷ If this group of sixty-thousand members, the largest in North Carolina, did not receive funds for economic relief based on enrollment numbers, they wouldn’t care one iota that Robeson’s Tuscarora are working on their own recognition proposal.”

“Ah, hell, you say!” the well-suited man in the mid-section shot up like a silver bullet.

“Now, Sir, I know the truth is a hard knock sometimes, but we need to keep calm. I was warned about how hot this presentation was, and I want everyone to know that this is the same riotous behavior that got those colonists killed,” the suited man sat back down, but was wound so tight he’d squeezed all the blood right out of his ears until they sailed white against his blistered face, “Powhattan’s priests got the King wound up and slaughtered most of those colonists. Listen: This latest federal recognition deal strikes the history-repeat button here and you’ll see it too. I’m gonna explain it: Raleigh’s first shipment of Christians were scared off by the Indians and went back to England. Then, in 1586, after Raleigh’s second shipment of Christians had been murdered by the Powhattan and the seven colonists; four men, two boys, and a young woman, were seen working as coppersmiths for the Tuscarora, there was a man named John Pory of Jamestown who went and stirred up the crap pot again. Pory proposed that the Algonquin Chowanoke trespass against the Mighty Tuscarora for some western copper mines. ⁸ (pages 11-12).

8. Pearce, H. (1938). New Light on the Roanoke Colony: A Preliminary Examination of a Stone Found in Chowan County, North Carolina. Journal of Southern History, 4(2), 156-58.

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R.H. Major. (2017). The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia: Expressing the Cosmographie and Comodities of the Country, together with the Manners and Customes of the People. Gathered and observed as well by those who went first thither as collected by William Strachey, Gent., the first Secretary of the Colony. In The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315557236 Page 26.





 

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