Melungeons

In portions of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee are found the so-called "Melungeons" (probably from French melange, "mixed"), or "Portuguese," apparently an offshoot from the Croatan proper, and in Delaware are found the "Moors."

Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to a Senate Resolution of June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina O. M. McPherson 1915

Over the past two centuries, individuals and groups among them Mexican Americans, Indians, Asian immigrants, and Melungeons have fought to establish their whiteness in order to lay claim to full citizenship in local courtrooms, administrative and legislative hearings, and the U.S.

Gross, What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America Mary L. Dudziak 2008

Over the past two centuries, individuals and groups among them Mexican Americans, Indians, Asian immigrants, and Melungeons have fought to establish their whiteness in order to lay claim to full citizenship in local courtrooms, administrative and legislative hearings, and the U.S.

Archive 2008-09-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

Was she connected to a unique group of people known as Melungeons, the researcher timidly asked, afraid Arthur might slap her.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

Ill-behaved children in eastern Tennessee and western Virginia were told the Melungeons would come for them.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

The Melungeons have been described as a "tri-racial isolate," with a mixture of white, black and Native American ancestry.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

While growing up, she heard from a baby-sitter that Melungeons sported six fingers on each hand, all the better to "grab mean little children and carry them off to their caves in the cliffs outside of town."

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

There is in Hancock County, Tennessee, a tribe of people known by the local name of Malungeons or Melungeons.

Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to a Senate Resolution of June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina O. M. McPherson 1915

Elizabeth C. Hirschman in her book Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America, described naming patterns unique to C.lonial America and some Melungeon families.

The Millennial Star 2009

The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People: An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America by N. Brent Kennedy

Food for Thought 2006