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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Black Dutch (genealogy) (section Melungeon)
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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Atlantic Creole (section Melungeon Creoles)
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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