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Hello everyone 🙂
I was surfin the other night and found a good site on Melungeons. I sent it to Tom and he thought I should post this to Saponitown. It has some great info on Melungeons.
http://www.geocities.com/mikenassau/what.htm
Also as I was surfing I found a few more sites so I thought I’d post them here too.
http://multiracial.com/content/view/310/27/
And this site has a lot of links:
http://www.ancestraldesigns.com/smarc/ethnic.htm
My grandmother often said we were ‘Black Dutch’. Here’s a site that talks about Black Dutch and Melungeons and others.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hornbeck/blkdutch.htm
If anyone else finds good sites, lets post them here to share with each other.
Have a great day. Barb
I don’t know how many have seen or read this site but it claerly mention the eastern Blackfoot and Sapomni people together in Melungeon communities.
This early term from the Hugenots (French) for mixed Blood peole Melungeon is clearly the same term as what is refered to as Metis in canada.
People of more than on ethnic origin.
Still The People retain thier Native American Identity.!!
‘Appalachian Indians were less mixed with Black and White, but they did not become involved with the Melungeons until the Melungeons had already formed and moved from the Virginia – North Carolina border in the Piedmont to the Appalachia area.
The Cherokee particularly inter-married with the Graysville Melungeons of the Tennessee River Valley.
The Saponi are probably the most important Indian element in most groups of Melungeons. As they broke up and scattered, they were generally known as Blackfoot. ‘
That is the name used for them in the Melungeons of Appalachia, the Cherokee and in the Black community. There are many Blackfoot descendants in all three of these groups.’
http://dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/The_Americas/Melungeon/
Ok we hit the jackpot here. There are tons of links.
I haven’t had a chance to look at all the links, but let me just say that anything Mike Nassau says about Melungeons is in a feedback loop with us, we’ve shared info back some years ago and have similar ideas. So we can’t say we’ve corroborated something by this, it’s not an entirely independent source. Of course, he likely has some great info on the subject, I don’t mean to diminish it, I just don’t want to mislead anyone by not pointing this out.
Actually, the article I have at http://www.saponitown.com/Blackfoot.htm was written when Mike and Karlton Douglas asked me to write it for a book on Melungeons they were trying to put together. That’s how closely aligned our work is. And once our site had the word “Blackfoot” prominent in it people started showing up in droves. So, he’s a very significant influence on this site, even though I don’t believe he’s ever even posted here.
That’s great Linda 🙂 How exciting for you to be part of it.
I haven’t been researching this part of my ancestry too long so I don’t know what has and hasn’t been said. I am still trying to read all the important posts here from when you started. And even when I do read them, since most of it is foreign to me I don’t retain it very well. It’s just too much info to try to absorb at one time. So I just keep learning a little at a time. I had never heard of a Suponi Indian or a melungeon before Tom told me about them a while back but I’m starting to learn a little at a time. 🙂
I didn’t realize that anyone here was connected with Karlton Douglas. I read something he wrote concerning Moses Ridley and I would love to ask him about it. How can I reach him?
Hi everyone,
In researching mixed blood peoples, the name the Cree gave the Metis (pronounced “may-TEE”) was “o-tee-paym-soo-wuk,” which means “their own boss” or “people who own themselves.”
The Metis thought of themselves as “The Forgotten People.”
These are two very interesting observations, by the Cree and the Metis themselves. Any comments on this will be appreciated.
hey Bev, yes the Metis up here are a very interesting people, mostly from Cree and French, but aswell from Cree and Scotts/ Irish, there’s a big difference between the 2, mainly because the French raised thier kids as Indian, and the Scotts English Irish sendt thier kids back to Engalnd to be educated, but many never came back!
The Metis speak Michiff, and are occasionally called Aupa to go saun, means “half man” , what ever peole call them , the majority are great people, known best of all for thier humor!
In Lakota they will say “Lakhota chincha” (“Lakota’s child”) or “Washichun chincha” (“Non-Native’s child), depending on which side the person favors.
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