Andy Powell, mayor of Bideford, on England's southwestern coast, is convinced the English settlers who mysteriously disappeared from modern-day North Carolina's Roanoke Island joined the local Native American tribe, an assertion he says can be verified with DNA evidence in both America and Britain.

The stories about the lost colony Roanoke always lead people to assume something horrible happened. The stories are laid out like a horror mystery about a group of unsuspecting people who were mercilessly annihilated by a neighboring tribe.

Yet the most likely story is that the colony assimilated with a nearby friendly tribe. It almost sounds like the Thanksgiving story, albeit with a different ending.

The Russian Itelmen look a lot like the natives in the Americas and they may just be relatives. The short article states that it's somewhat unknown if their dress and rituals have survived since before the great migration or if they're simply taking current Native tradition and making it their own. Either way, it's an interesting photoessay that the article links to.

Some people like to say that ancient tribal peoples migrated to the US from Asia thousands of years ago, but I think it was the other way around. We were created here in America, with the creation stories to back it up, and migrated and filled the other lands. I think the Mormons even say that the Garden of Eden was around Michigan somewhere. Now add to that the fact that Adam and Eve were Indian and I think we're getting somewhere :)

Fascinating color film shot in London during the late 1920's. It's amazing to see history in these everyday shots in a time that I know nearly nothing about. I'm a fan of The Great Gatsby, so that's as much as I know about the 20's.