Finding Our Indian Blood

Got Vance Hawkins’ Find Our Indian Blood on Kindle.

It has genealogy on Wayland, Gist/Guess/Guest, Brown, Richey and Sizemore families, among others.

Thought these quotes were interesting

Today’s researchers know the Melungeons were Eastern Siouan – the Saponi, the Saura/ Cheraw, and Catawba seeming to be the main bands, but there were many others.

The Melungeons too, were Eastern Siouan — if not Catawba then they descended from their closest, both genetically and linguistically – allies, the Cheraw or Saponi, both of whom were known to have moved in with the Catawba during recorded history. They were the same people.

Hawkins, Vance. Finding Our Indian Blood Bluewater Publications. Kindle Edition.

References: Who’s Your People? . . . a Dissertation . . . submitted to Michigan State University 2003 by [now] Dr. Richard Allen Carlson, Jr.; Melungeons, Examining an Appalachian Legend by Pat Spurlock Elder; . . . Piedmont Catawba . . . compiled by Richard Haithcock. Goins mentions the minutes of the Stoney Creek Primitive Baptist Church, a church attended by my Wayland’s. Carlson and Haithcock show direct genealogical links between the Saponi (and other) Eastern Siouan Indian, known Melungeon families, and people in Ohio called the “Carmel Indians”. Elder shows direct lines from the Piedmont Catawba, composed of several bands of the Catawba (Eastern Siouan Peoples) and those known as “Melungians.”