`  == Removing section on Croatan Indians ==  I am removing the section on the Croatan tribe of Native Americans for the following reasons:  :* It was plagiarized word for word from the website of the Croatian Embassy in Washington :* The embassy website does not cite any research or critical analysis :* The ``legend`` of Native Americans descending from Croatian sailors is specious  The embassy says only that some ``historians`` believe in the legend, but mentions no specific names, universities, or journals.  The legend itself depends on ``the story of Croatian sailors shipwrecked off Cape Hatteras in 1498``.  However, the website does not tell us if this story is based on documentation of a specific shipwreck, if it is oral tradition based on a supposed shipwreck, or if it is merely a modern hypothesis conjured out of thin air to explain how a pre-contact tribe of Algonquians could plausibly descend from Croats.  Just because two anglicized ethnonyms have a similar spelling (Croatan and Croatian) does not mean that the two groups are related.  Without linguistic, archaeological, anthropological, and genetic evidence, that claim is a huge leap.  It is unclear if anyone even believes it.  The embassy website presents this legend in the context of fostering positive feelings between the US and Croatia, not as a serious assertion.    `