What does the word CROATOAN means?

Answer 1

I am a Lumbee Indian, so let me share some knowledge with you. Well, Croatoan isn't so much a word as it is a name. Croatoan is the Indian Tribe know today as the Lumbee. The Crow and Cheraw Indians came together at some point in time along with some other unknown tribes, way before the Whites came, and became the Croatan. Yes, the lost colony found us (or we found them) and we fed them and took them in because the poor things were starved, cold, etc. Not all of the colonist stayed, some went up to Chesapeake Bay were they planed to go originally. Whether or not they made it, I'll never know. Anyways, we moved down following the river known as the Lumbee River (if you call it the Lumber River you are wrong) which runs through Robeson County. We decided that we didn't want the Whites to give us a name, like they had been doing for so long, and we called ourselves the Lumbee. As far as what "Croatan" actually translates to, I don't know. But Lumbee means "Dark water" in our language (Algonquian). I' m not quite sure if this really answered the question but maybe now someone will finally somewhat understand my people and were we come from.

Answer 2

I am a Lumbee Indian, so let me share some knowledge with you. Well, Croatoan isn't so much a word as it is a name. Croatoan is the Indian Tribe know today as the Lumbee. The Crow and Cheraw Indians came together at some point in time along with some other unknown tribes, way before the Whites came, and became the Croatan. Yes, the lost colony found us (or we found them) and we fed them and took them in because the poor things were starved, cold, etc. Not all of the colonist stayed, some went up to Chesapeake Bay were they planed to go originally. Whether or not they made it, I'll never know. Anyways, we moved down following the river known as the Lumbee River (if you call it the Lumber River you are wrong) which runs through Robeson County. We decided that we didn't want the Whites to give us a name, like they had been doing for so long, and we called ourselves the Lumbee. As far as what "Croatan" actually translates to, I don't know. But Lumbee means "Dark water" in our language (Algonquian). I' m not quite sure if this really answered the question but maybe now someone will finally somewhat understand my people and were we come from.

The name Croatan is not a Lumbee name, it is Tuscarora name for a Tuscarora village this was even documented by two white writers of the 1800s. White people had no reason to lie for Indians in the 1800s. As for its meaning it in itself is a bad mis- pronounced word and mis-spelled word because the colony people of the day could not understand the speak of the Tuscarora Indians. The lumbee is a made up word that as nothing to do with putting cheraw and crow together. People stop lying lumbees stop the lies. There was never a pre-european tribe called lumbee nor was there ever a real lumbee river in any ones history. Further more the now named lumbee did not originate in Robeson county. Please lumbee learn history of real native peoples of NC.
Croatoan Island is the name used by 1585-1587 Roanoke Colony settlers for Hatteras Island or an island near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA. It is speculated that the Roanoke colonists might have fled there.