Joanne FreemanI don't know if I'm breaking rules by doing this, but this is the MOST BRILLIANT TWEET.
In my humble opinion.
Scott Shapiro@jbf1755 Agreed, just genius
Larry Anderson 🕊️@jbf1755 Oh my God that's brilliant. 👍
Ken Bridges@jbf1755 I agree.
LOLRH1 
🇺🇲🇺🇦@jbf1755 agreed. 🤣
Katie Grosskopf
Fulkery1@jbf1755 headed to post it now just in case
Alex Mayaku@jbf1755 I had to look up "Croatoan" because I am not a native American, but this is awesome 🤣 Don't forget to add a picture of some chests
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Zachary Klaas@jbf1755 Now that I Googled it, I agree. :)
Stephen Anthony@jbf1755 complete LOL on this. Just priceless.
SisAve
Sissy
5thGenFloridaJane@jbf1755 I don't know what that means.
@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote@5thGenFloridaJane @jbf1755 Look up the lost colony of Roanoke.
DSR@jbf1755 lost colony of Twitter
@jbf1755 oh my goodness, yes! So funny!
Dr Heather@jbf1755 ha!! Brilliant!
Douglas Hunter@jbf1755 I would accept an audio clip of someone whispering "rosebud"
Vince@dwhauthor @jbf1755 This is where I went with it, because I haven't seen the word 'CROATOAN' before, so I just assumed it was intended to be an opaque and intriguing reference left behind for people to try to interpret.
I must now do the Googling.
John LuskVery Virginia Dare.
Fluz@tarheel kinda? I mean I believe they just ended up assimilating into the native peoples. But that might be naive on my part. A lot of early English settlement to North America seems well intentioned, until you dig deeper.
@Fluzbug (I can tell this is gonna be a thread.) Yeah, there's that whole "we just came to co-exist and y'all started shooting arrows at us" thing that makes a happy story we grow up with, but... Europe ("the West") was in debt due to constant war (plus, you know... humans are greedy) and there were exploitable resources over here, and we came to exploit, no doubt. Go to Jamestown VA and talk to the re-enactors there. We were at war with the Indians pretty much from the get-go. 1/
@Fluzbug I'm not as familiar w/the North as w/the South, but I'm guessing you don't buy the island of Manahattan if you're just setting up a quaint little fishing village or trading post.
Anyway, blah blah blah, I don't REALLY mean to be getting into white colonization of the New World, BUT... that whole "Lost Colony" thing is just straight out white lore. Yes, the haunting mystery of "CROATAN" appeals, but that's because we're raised to believe white is special and... 2/
@Fluzbug ...the mysterious loss of a white colony is a particularly poignant tragedy. The whole "Virginia Dare" (first WHITE baby born in the New World) thing is really just racist on top of the colonialism.
My dad took us to see that outdoor play more than once, and I just ate it up. Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure now why it got burned down one winter.
Anyway, here we are on Mastodon, the Brave New World, and somebody throws up CROATAN. Turns out I've got a REFLEX.
3/
@Fluzbug Maybe we could talk about the cliff dwellings of Twitter. Who were these people? Look at these amazing structures they built. Where did they go? Was it a tragedy? We don't even know. Is THAT a tragedy?
4/I think I'm done. Maybe.
@tarheel as hinted at I’m aware of the dark side of colonization of North America. My ancestors bought lands from the natives then they just kinda took more when they felt like it resulting in king Phillips war. But Roanoke island most historians believe they just integrated peacefully, as far as I’m aware.
Mmmaybe. Or maybe they just didn't last long enough to enter into hostile relations w/the locals.
Anyway, the modern-day lore of the Lost Colony is problematic and I think we can do better than to invoke it unadvisedly.
Wikipedia on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony#:~:text=Raleigh's%20charter%2C%20issued%20on%20March,%2C%20occupy%2C%20and%20enjoy%22.
«The [Lost Colony] colonists were largely middle-class Londoners, perhaps seeking to become landed gentry.»
(i.e., not the desperate poor) At this point, there was already bad blood due to an earlier colony (Lane).
«On August 9, White led a pre-emptive strike on Dasamongueponke, but the enemy (fearing reprisal for the death of Howe) had withdrawn from the village, and the English accidentally attacked Croatan looters.»
Holy moly, it just goes on and on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony#Investigations_into_Roanoke
Ok, here we go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony#Integration_with_local_tribes
I think it's going a little far, though, to paint a picture of colonists peacefully co-existing w/local natives.
S. Z. Attwell ☕️💻@jbf1755 I laughed so hard and promptly QTed it. It is pretty amazing.
Manong Dave@jbf1755 I'm keeping my Twitter account active just so I can do this.
Kai 
🌍🚨@ManongDave @jbf1755 we'd have to fight very hard over being the one who turns off the lights 😉🤣
Julie Hughes
Fish Id Wardrobe@jbf1755 Maybe add a maltese cross
Vicks McQ ✨🌟@jbf1755 He's on Mastodon too! @JosiahHawthorne
Sally gammage
CQ@jbf1755 *toot
John O’ConnellLovely historical reference :-)
Cosmic Oracle
John Hurley@jbf1755 I confess I had to use Google.
Brilliant
Brilliant
@Lee_in_Iowa@jbf1755 Because I’m me, I had to a) look it up and b) share what I learned. (Writer AND teacher; I’m trapped in my own identity.)
Means town council or “talk place” AND is the cryptic (and isn’t that a perfect word as well, root word “crypt”) word CROATOAN left behind the dead space of Roanoke.
@jbf1755 Joanne, I don’t know whether a screenshot of a tweet is against rules, but I hope not. It’s certainly easier not to be sent off to another platform—and a dying one at that.
Let’s hear it for screenshooting those tweets rather than pushing us over and back when sharing one!
Alvis Dunn
Haxan Seven@jbf1755 I saw saw that on Twitter this morning and being from NC, can totally endorse this tweet. We should all retweet on the day we leave and tell Elon to enjoy his 44 billion dollar dumpster fire.
Discoduk1968@jbf1755 OMG, that's hilarious!
GenXceptional@jbf1755 or maybe the last tweet should be “Mastodon”?
CMTUHistory@jbf1755 I saw that and thought it was really clever