Interesting to note that the first French explorers (Champlain) noted the European features the Indians on the east coast of Canada had, in comparison to those of the interior. The Vikings were clearly here for sometime, then absorbed into the various Indian bands.
It is safe to say the same thing happened elsewhere in North America, likely the west coast of North America. Mariner's lost at sea or walking the land bridge into NA.
supposingly, it was either Jamestown or Plymouth Rock, that they were greeted by some Indians that spoke English..
Story goes that they had traded regularly with English owned ships, passing thru those waters...
on the other hand, I am remembering this from like 5th grade history class..
so the teacher could have just been pulling a fast one.....
but there were blue eyed "indians" on the East Side of Chesapeake Bay, who did speak English, that were found after Jamestown was settled in 1607.
They were the remains of those that Settled at Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina, intermixed with the Indians and migrated to the Chesapeake Bay area.
When the first people returned to what was Roanoke Island settlement, all the found was the word Croatan carved on a tree, and the site was in shambles...
Croatan was the local Indian tribe in that area of what is now Virginia and NE North Carolina...
