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    Melungeon (/məˈlʌndʒən/ mə-LUN-jən) (sometimes also spelled Malungean, Melangean, Melungean, Melungin) was a slur historically applied to individuals...
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  • American. They’d say they were anything but Melungeon because anything else would be better ... because to be Melungeon was to be discriminated against." In...
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  • late 20th century, DNA tests of people from core Melungeon families, as documented in the Melungeon DNA Project coordinated by Jack Goins, have shown...
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  • The Carmel Indians (pronounced Car'-mul) are a group of Melungeons who lived in Magoffin County, Kentucky and moved to Highland County, Ohio. Dr. Edward...
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    Among them was a multi-racial group of settlers who became known as Melungeons. They have been documented as having primarily European and sub-Saharan...
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  • additional Melungeon research materials with Y-DNA and mtDNA tests, any test will allow comparisons with the results of current and past Melungeon DNA studies...
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  • identified as Melungeon, a mixed-race group based in Kentucky and Tennessee, and attended the Melungeon unions, or joined the Melungeon Heritage Association...
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    Hancock County is known particularly for its population of people of Melungeon ancestry, who are believed to be of mixed European, African, and Native...
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  • The 2016 song "Redbone" by Childish Gambino is named after the term. Melungeon Sabine Free State Adams–Onís Treaty Regulator–Moderator War Brass Ankles...
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  • Some Melungeon communities in rural Appalachia have historically self-identified as Portuguese. Given their complex ancestry, individual Melungeons may...
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    later slave censuses. Beginning about 1767, some of the ancestors of the Melungeons reached the frontier New River area, where they are listed in the 1780s...
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    Multiethnic Afro-Asian Amerasian Blaxican Cajuns Hapa Louisiana Creole people Melungeon Mulatto Punjabi Mexican Americans People of the United States / Americans...
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  • Southerners Blaxicans Great Dismal Swamp maroons Louisiana Creole of color Melungeon Demographics Neighborhoods list U.S. cities with large populations 2000...
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    Multiethnic Afro-Asian Amerasian Blaxican Cajuns Hapa Louisiana Creole people Melungeon Mulatto Punjabi Mexican Americans People of the United States / Americans...
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  • Virginia. He has red hair, inherited from his dead father, who was a Melungeon. He is nicknamed "Demon Copperhead" for the colour of his hair and his...
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  • Muwallad, Melezi, Coloured, Dougla, half-caste, ʻafakasi, mestizo, mutt, Melungeon, quadroon, octoroon, sambo/zambo, Eurasian, hapa, hāfu, Garifuna, pardo...
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    that "the answers largely hid the truth". Afro-Latin Americans Casta Melungeon Mulatto Race and ethnicity in Latin America Romani people Gibson, Charles...
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    Ankles Creoles of color Dominickers Freedmen Great Dismal Swamp maroons Melungeon Carmel Indians Redbone Specific ancestries Americo-Liberians Creek Freedmen...
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    institution providing primary education to children of the multi-racial Melungeon communities, who lived in the remote mountainous areas along the Tennessee-Virginia...
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  • customers direct rude comments at Pearl Grimes, a poor teenager who is a Melungeon. Ave embarrasses the brats then offers Pearl a job at the pharmacy. During...
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    Maroons's Rastafari and Garifuna's belief system (or New Orleans Voodoo and Melungeon in North America).[citation needed] Especially in the Caribbean, Central...
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  • Multiethnic Afro-Asian Amerasian Blaxican Cajuns Hapa Louisiana Creole people Melungeon Mulatto Punjabi Mexican Americans People of the United States / Americans...
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    Ridge people Dominickers Fulani Garifuna Igbos Louisiana Redbones Lumbee Melungeons Somali Bantus Yoruba African immigrants South America Argentina Bolivia...
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    ethnicity Culture of the Southern United States Great Wagon Road Hillbilly Melungeon Poor White Redneck Social and economic stratification in Appalachia Tuckahoes...
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  • Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages Moors, a variant name for Melungeon (tri-racial isolate groups) in colonial North America Moorish Orthodox...
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  • Ankles Creoles of color Dominickers Freedmen Great Dismal Swamp maroons Melungeon Carmel Indians Redbone Specific ancestries Americo-Liberians Creek Freedmen...
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    called Melungeon, have documented the racial heritage of Harlan's early settlers through 19th-century photographs, DNA analysis such as the Melungeon DNA...
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    also are commonly represented among other mixed-race groups, such as the Melungeon in Tennessee and the Lumbee people in North Carolina. Over time, people...
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    Ankles Creoles of color Dominickers Freedmen Great Dismal Swamp maroons Melungeon Carmel Indians Redbone Specific ancestries Americo-Liberians Creek Freedmen...
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    musical Applause. Her father is from Tennessee, and through him, Apple has Melungeon ancestry. Her maternal grandparents were dancer Millicent Green and big...
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