Gone to Croatan

[joeallonby]

Has anyone ever seen a Spanish film called "Cabo de Vaco"?

on 7/3/03 1:02 AM, Dave Monroe at flavordav at yahoo.com wrote:

> 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 M?tis 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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