VILLAGE OF ROANOAK-ROANOAK INDIAN VILLAGE OF 1584 ON ROANOKE ISLAND NC

Village of Roanoak at Roanoak Island Historical Park In 1971, L. Douglas Waldorf moved his outdoor living museum from Virginia Beach, Virginia to Manteo, North Carolina on the north end of Roanoak Island. L. Douglas Waldorf reconstructed the Village of Roanoak and opened Roanoak Island Historical Park in Manteo, North Carolina on the north end of Roanoke Island on May 29, 1971. At Roanoak Indian Village, attired as the Native people of Roanoak were depicted in John White's Drawings in 1584, L. Douglas Waldorf told the true story of America's Beginnings, as the first English explorers led by Arthur Barlowe and Philip Amadas came to Roanoak Island in the expedition of 1584 and were warmly welcomed by the people in the Village of Roanoak. This day at Roanoak is recorded in the journals of these English explorers as published in the general history of Virginia by Captain John Smith in 1624. To Purchase YOUR copy of "A DAY AT ROANOAK", a DVD depicting this day at Roanoak in 1584, CLICK HERE NOW! Made your selection and ready to check out? Just click here now.

At Roanoak Indian Village, attired as the Native Roanoak's were depicted in John White's Drawings, L. Douglas Waldorf kneels beside one of the reconstructed posts of the "Quioccosan," the Sacred Posts of the Sacred Circle, carved with the face of a dead chief who had become a God, featured on the cover of the DVD Legend of the White God in Virginia and Other Histories.

The reconstructed "Quioccosan" of the Village of Roanoak at Roanoak Indian Village in Roanoak Island Historical Park in Manteo, North Carolina. The "Quioccosan" was drawn by Governor John White during the exploration expedition of 1584. More of the religion of the Roanoak's is told on the DVD Legend of the White God in Virginia and Other Histories. To Purchase YOUR copy of "A DAY AT ROANOAK", a DVD depicting daily life at Roanoak in 1584, CLICK HERE NOW! Few people in America have ever heard the story of what really happened on Roanoke Island during the years from 1584 to 1590 A.D. Much has been written, and the event even portrayed in colorful drama, but all this remains fiction. The real story has lain untold for centuries in the records and writings of those who actually lived the adventure of America's birth as an English speaking nation, including Captain Arthur Barlowe, Philip Amadas, and Thomas Hariot. These journal entries were included in the general history of Virginia by Captain John Smith, as well as Thomas Hariot's "A Brief and True Report of the Newfound land of Virginia, yet are not included in most history books today. At Roanoak Indian Village, the Real story was dramatically pieced together in a fascinating program presented daily in "Granganameo's great feasting House." (Pronounced Gran-ga-nam-e-o with short a's and long e and o, accent on Gran and nam) Many visitors to the Village of Roanoak commented: "I never really knew what the Lost Colony was until I came to the Indian Village." "One of the most interesting experiences of our trip down the Outer Banks." "After sightseeing for four days, it was without comparison the most interesting and well-presented program we had seen."

Visitors to Roanoak Island Historical Park, the outdoor living musuem containing the reconstructed Village of Roanoak, (called Roanoak Indian Village for better identification of the visitors), were first greeted by the wife of L. Douglas Waldorf - Olive Owens Waldorf. To Purchase YOUR copy of "A DAY AT ROANOAK", a DVD depicting daily life at Roanoak in 1584, CLICK HERE NOW!

Olive Owens Waldorf would escort the visitors into the Village and seat them in the Reconstructed House of Granganameo, the chief of Roanoak, to await the History Lecture, or the visitors would be escorted to the Village to begin the Village Life Tour at the reconstructed Village of Roanoak at Roanoak Indian Village in Roanoak Island Historical Park in Manteo, North Carolina.

L. Douglas Waldorf, attired as the Native Roanoak's were depicted in John White's Drawings during the exploration expedition of 1584, tells the true story of America's beginnings in the reconstructed "Great Feasting House of Granganameo" as the first English explorers came to Roanoak Island in the expedition of 1584 and were warmly welcomed by the people in the Village of Roanoak, documented by the English explorers, including Arthur Barlowe and Thomas Harriot, in 1584 and published in the general history of Virginia by Captain John Smith in 1624, at the reconstructed Village of Roanoak at Roanoak Indian Village in Roanoak Island Historical Park in Manteo, North Carolina. To Purchase YOUR copy of "A DAY AT ROANOAK", a DVD depicting daily life at Roanoak in 1584, CLICK HERE NOW! Do you know these fascinating details of history?? Take our History Quickie Quiz; click here now! In addition to the historical narrative, the program also contained real life demonstrations of the manners and customs of the ancient inhabitants of the Outer Banks area. Many of these ancient methods of life had never been seen in any other museum, thus placing Roanoak Indian Village in a class by itself. The Village Life Tour demonstrated cooking techniques, tanning, sewing, pottery making, arrowhead making, religion and much more of the every day village life of the native american Roanoak's.

Debra Waldorf Norris describes the housekeeping and sleeping methods of the people of Roanoak as they were observed by the English explorers, including Arthur Barlowe and Thomas Harriot, in the expedition of 1584, at the reconstructed Village of Roanoak at Roanoak Indian Village in Roanoak Island Historical Park in Manteo, North Carolina.

L. Douglas Waldorf and his daughter Jean Waldorf Black, demonstrate the housekeeping and sleeping methods of the people of Roanoak as they were observed by the English explorers, including Captain Arthur Barlowe and Sir Thomas Harriot, in the expedition of 1584, at the reconstructed Village of Roanoak at Roanoak Indian Village in Roanoak Island Historical Park in Manteo, North Carolina. To Purchase YOUR copy of "A DAY AT ROANOAK", a DVD depicting daily life at Roanoak in 1584, CLICK HERE NOW!

Jean Waldorf Black demonstrates the cooking methods of the people of Roanoak as they were observed by the English explorers, including Arthur Barlowe and Thomas Harriot, in the expedition of 1584, at the reconstructed Village of Roanoak at Roanoak Indian Village in Roanoak Island Historical Park in Manteo, North Carolina.

The housekeeping exhibit of corn and stone grinders, reed knives, shells and gourdes of the people of Roanoak as they were observed by the English explorers, including Captain Arthur Barlowe and Sir Thomas Harriot, in the expedition of 1584, at the reconstructed Village of Roanoak at Roanoak Indian Village in Roanoak Island Historical Park in Manteo, North Carolina. To Purchase YOUR copy of "A DAY AT ROANOAK", a DVD depicting daily life at Roanoak in 1584, CLICK HERE NOW!

Debra Waldorf Norris demonstrates the techniques of cutting corn off the cob with the jaw bone of a deer as one of the cooking methods of the people of Roanoak as they were observed by the English explorers, including Arthur Barlowe, Philip Amadas, and Thomas Harriot, in the expedition of 1584, at the reconstructed Village of Roanoak at Roanoak Indian Village in Roanoak Island Historical Park in Manteo, North Carolina.

Jean Waldorf Black uses an actual native grinding stone to demonstrate the corn grinding methods of the people of Roanoak as they were observed by the English explorers, including Arthur Barlowe and Thomas Harriot, in the expedition of 1584. Captain Arthur Barlowe and the English explorers were fed corn ground up fine and put into boiling water and cooked until it resembled porriage. What could this have been? Have you ever eaten Grits? That's what the first English explorers to the New found land of Virginia were fed by the people of Roanoak. To Purchase YOUR copy of "A DAY AT ROANOAK", a DVD depicting daily life at Roanoak in 1584, CLICK HERE NOW!

L. Douglas Waldorf demonstrates arrow making, beginning with the arrowhead of stone (though the Roanoak's used other items besides stone for their arrowheads), using the methods of the people of Roanoak, documented by Arthur Barlowe and Thomas Hariot, as they were observed by the English explorers, including Arthur Barlowe and Thomas Harriot, in expedition of 1584, at the reconstructed Village of Roanoak at Roanoak Indian Village in Roanoak Island Historical Park in Manteo, North Carolina.

L. Douglas Waldorf reconstructed to the smallest detail the tools and methods of the people of Roanoak, documented by Arthur Barlowe and the English explorers, as they were observed by the English explorers, including Thomas Harriot, in the expedition of 1584. Here, in the arrowmaker's house of Roanoak Indian Village, L. Douglas Waldorf demonstrated how the people of Roanoak would pad their palms with a piece of deer hide, and using a deer antler, slowly chip off small pieces of stone until the arrowhead was shaped as they desired. To Purchase YOUR copy of "A DAY AT ROANOAK", a DVD depicting daily life at Roanoak in 1584, CLICK HERE NOW!

What did the people of Roanoak use to tie the arrowheads onto the shaft with? L. Douglas Waldorf demonstrates how the people of Roanoak would cut the sinew out of a deer's leg and use as to tie, not only arrowheads onto the arrow shaft with, but also to sew with, and many other things. In the tannery of Roanoak Indian Village, the methods of the people of Roanoak to use every bit of a deer were reconstructed and demonstrated as they were observed and documented by Arthur Barlowe and the English explorers, including Thomas Harriot, in the expedition of 1584, at the reconstructed Village of Roanoak at Roanoak Indian Village in Roanoak Island Historical Park in Manteo, North Carolina.

L. Douglas Waldorf demonstrates the final touch of a two piece arrow used by the people of Roanoak in the arrowmakers house of Roanoak Indian Village. The methods of arrowmaking were meticuliously reconstructed and demonstrated at Roanoak Indian Village as they were observed and documented by Arthur Barlowe and the English explorers, including Thomas Harriot, in the expedition of 1584, at the reconstructed Village of Roanoak at Roanoak Indian Village in Roanoak Island Historical Park in Manteo, North Carolina. Capt. Arthur Barlow said "a more kind and loving people can not be, than the people of Roanoak." To Purchase YOUR copy of "A DAY AT ROANOAK", a DVD depicting daily life at Roanoak in 1584, CLICK HERE NOW! DVDs featuring the details of village life (including cooking, housekeeping, tanning, clothes making, foods, pottery making, arrowmaking, religion and more) and the history of America's beginning, including the history of the Village of Roanoak and how Captain Arthur Barlowe and the first English explorers were received, welcomed, bathed, fed, and more, and the history of what caused the ill-will between the people of Roanoak and the English, recorded in the general history of Virginia by Captain John Smith and as presented at Roanoak Island Historical Park, Roanoak Indian Village, are currently in production and will be available soon. The first in the Roanoak Series, "A DAY AT ROANOAK" was released at the Fourth Annual Roanoke Island American Indian Cultural Festival and Powwow hosted by The Algonquin Indians of North Carolina, Inc. on August 11 & 12, 2007. *This production is not a product of Native Americans*

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To receive notification of these Roanoak productions as they become available, send us a request through a feedback form by clicking here, or click here now and enter your request for more information on the Roanoak's and their customs and history. Do you know these fascinating details of history?? Take our History Quickie Quiz; click here now! As the history presentations and demonstrations were too deep for the younger visitors, and visitors still wanted to "see Indians" when visiting Roanoak Island Historical Park and Roanoak Indian Village, L. Douglas Waldorf began offering a POW WOW two nights a week in which the visitors were taught dance steps, participated in the "Frog Chorus", heard Native American star legends, and Native American Chants.

L. Douglas Waldorf kneels beside one of the sacred posts in the "Quioccosan"as the fire blazes at a Roanoak Indian Village Pow Wow at Roanoak Island Historical Park. Roanoak Island Historical Park and Roanoak Indian Village were located on the North End of Roanoke Island in Manteo, North Carolina from 1971 to 1978.

L. Douglas Waldorf uses a wooden staff to draw in the sand in the "Quioccosan"as he tells Native American star legends at a Roanoak Indian Village Pow Wow at Roanoak Island Historical Park. Roanoak Island Historical Park and Roanoak Indian Village were located on the North End of Roanoke Island in Manteo, North Carolina from 1971 to 1978.

L. Douglas Waldorf beats the 200+ year old Cree drum as visitors learn and participate in a Native American Dance in and around the "Quioccosan" at a Roanoak Indian Village Pow Wow at Roanoak Island Historical Park. Roanoak Island Historical Park and Roanoak Indian Village were located on the North End of Roanoke Island in Manteo, North Carolina from 1971 to 1978. The Cree drum is the same one used in the Tipi Exhibit at Skicoak Living Musuem in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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