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   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 precontact 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