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Although not specifically intended to resolve, or address claims of a " Lost Colony " at Roanoke, Special Indian Agent Orlando M. McPherson of North Carolina in response to a Senate Resolution in 1914 completed an investigation into the Indians of North Carolina.

In a letter from the United States Secretary of the Interior responding to a Senate Resolution dated June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina was commissioned.

On September 19, 1914 Mr. O. M.

McPherson filed his report and it was noted that the report was extensive and quite full showing a careful investigation on the ground as well as an extensive investigation into the historic record.

The document is available electronically from the " Documenting the American South " project at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

The documents are a part of 63rd Congress, 3rd Session, Senate, Document 667.