What’s a National mystery that still hasn’t been solved to this day?

Assimilation more than likely is school textbook of saying the natives raped and pillage the village.

In typical cases, you're not wrong. History is full of a great deal of brutality, and many a historical "assimilation" would be called genocide or war crimes now.

That said, in this particular case, we're talking about a documented group of literate but starving-to-death English colonists who left their final message of "Croatoan" followed up a few generations later of other English colonists meeting some Native Americans and thinking they are unusually English-y.

The Roanoke colonists had jack shit worth pillaging. If a few managed to survive through combining with a Native American tribe, good for them. It is unfair and unnecessary to assume rape or other crimes when there is not, and frankly, cannot be, any evidence for such crimes. If you disagree, then I must inform you that your great great grandfather cheated mine out of a chicken. I want a chicken plus a hundred and twenty years interest. I promise to split it with my 3rd cousins.

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