Gone to Croatan

[Dave Monroe]

Back in print ...

Sakolsky, Ron and James Koehnline, eds.
   Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American
   Dropout Culture.  NY: Autonomedia, 1991.

Back in the early days of American Colonial history,
an expedition from Mother England stopped by the new
colony at Roanoke to check in with everyone there.
Mysteriously, they found the place deserted, with no
sign of any massacre or violent removal, in fact no
sign of anyone at all except a note carved into a
tree: "Gone to Croatan." The Croatans were a local
Indian tribe, and the fate of the colonists was later
made apparent: Fed up with slaving away for a bunch of
absentee London gentlemen, the lower classes of
Roanoke had simply "dropped out" and gone native,
initially joining the tribe and then moving into the
mainland near the Great Dismal Swamp. European
vagabonds transmuted themselves into Noble Savages,
refusing the miseries of European civilization, and
took to the forest, launching the time-honored
American tradition of dropout culture.
 
Gone to Croatan presents 25 essays on the lost history
of North American practical dissent, viewed through
white Indians and black Islamic movements, the Maroons
of the Great Dismal Swamp, the Métis nation, rural
cracks in the cartographies of control. Here are the
tri-racial isolate communities, the buccaneers, the
hippie communes and many other aspects of North
American autonomous culture.

http://www.autonomedia.org/gonetocroatan/

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