In 1587 Sir Walter Raleigh sponsored just over a hundred British citizens to go by ship to the new world to start a colony in what he had dubbed Virginia. After a long and difficult voyage, they arrived and were immediately set upon by some of the local Indians. When their leader, John White returned three years later all of the colonists had vanished without a trace. Survivors of the Lost Colony is the story of how those colonists got to America and how they effected the local Native Americans who had been living in harmony with nature for thousands of years.