Melungeon
The Melungeons are various so-called tri-racial isolated (dt. Isolated tri-ethnic) groups that live in the southeastern United States . Historically, they are particularly associated with the region around the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains , including areas of eastern Tennessee , southwestern Virginia and eastern Kentucky . The melungeons are usually descended from Europeans, Afro-Americans, and North American Indians . It is unclear how many of these isolated groups exist, some estimates put as high as 200.
After it was often unclear which ethnic group descended the people, they were often called mulattos , mestizos called or Mustee. These terms, like the French-inspired Melungeon, are derived from the Latin verb miscere , German to mix . The theories about the origins of the Melungeons have changed over time; in fact, it could not be about the history of a people, but that of individual families.
Similar groups
Similar groups that have been classified as tri-ethnic have their own historical development. Some of the groups are linked by their history, which goes back to their ancestors in colonial Virginia. Some identify as Indian tribes and have received state recognition.
- Delaware
- Nanticoke Moors (also in Maryland ) Nanticoke groups in Delaware and New Jersey , associated with the Lenape tribe , received state recognition.
- Florida
- Dominickers from Holmes County in the Florida Panhandle
- Indiana
- Ben-Ishmael Tribe , pejoratively also Grasshopper Gypsies
- Louisiana
- Redbones (also in Texas )
- Maryland
- Piscataway Indian Nation , formerly We-Sorts , one of the groups related to the Piscataway , nationally recognized.
- New Jersey and New York
- Ramapough Mountain Indians also recognized Jackson Whites from the Ramapo Mountains , New Jersey and New York.
- North Carolina
- Coree or Faircloth Indians from Carteret County
- Haliwa-Saponi , recognized as a tribe
- Lumbee , recognized as a tribe
Ö Person County Indians , also Cubans and Portuguese
- Ohio
- Carmel Indians from Highland County
- South carolina
- Red Bones come from the Redbones from
- Turks
- Brass ankles
- Virginia
- Monacan , also issues from Amherst and Rockingham Counties , federally recognized tribe.
- West Virginia
- Chestnut Ridge people also Mayles, or pejoratively Guineas from Barbour County
literature
- Anthony P. Cavender: The Melungeons of Upper East Tennessee: Persisting Social Identity in Tennessee Anthropologist, Volume 6, 1981 pp. 27-36
- CS Everett: Melungeon History and Myth Appalachian Journal 1999, pp. 358-409
- N. Brent Kennedy, Robyn Vaughan Kennedy: The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People Mercer University Press, 1997 ISBN 978-0-8655-4516-8
Individual evidence
- ^ Tennessee Encyclopedia: Melungeons (English) accessed on July 19, 2020
- ^ Delaware's Forgotten Folk - The Story of the Moors and Nanticokes , Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press