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6/22/2025, 5:07:12 AM
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Sorry, I have noticed that term pop up mostly around the Cumberland and Pine Mountain areas. It seems to refer to Native American white settler mixes, but can also refer to Black mixes, but I feel like most truly it tends to mean native-mixed.
I guess most of the people I've seen look white and not native, but maybe they are still around. I know a lot of people personally identify as Melungeon especially in the deeper hollers.
There's an unusual history in America of people taking pride in being native-mixed as well as like basically white aristocrats claiming native heritage as a way of showing they were enmeshed with the land. Whereas black-mixes were a lot more shameful (and there's PLENTY of that in extreme southern WV)
Sorry, I have noticed that term pop up mostly around the Cumberland and Pine Mountain areas. It seems to refer to Native American white settler mixes, but can also refer to Black mixes, but I feel like most truly it tends to mean native-mixed.
I guess most of the people I've seen look white and not native, but maybe they are still around. I know a lot of people personally identify as Melungeon especially in the deeper hollers.
There's an unusual history in America of people taking pride in being native-mixed as well as like basically white aristocrats claiming native heritage as a way of showing they were enmeshed with the land. Whereas black-mixes were a lot more shameful (and there's PLENTY of that in extreme southern WV)
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