The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, NC, written by George Edwin Butler (1868-1941) and composed only a year after Special Indian Agent Orlando McPherson's Indians of North Carolina report, was an appeal to the state of North Carolina to create schools for the Croatans of Sampson County just as it had for those designated as Croatans in, for example, Robeson County, North Carolina.
Butler's report would prove to be important in an evolving system of southern rac.