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You would have to ask Tim ... but as far as I know, he's on a two-year hiatus, starting yesterday. Good luck raising him! You should probably direct that question to Jack Goins or the Gowen Family Foundation, etc.
But as far as I'm concerned, the other names are all attributed to the groups by outsiders: "Redbone" is a term that African Americans use to describe a certain coloring among their people ... not unlike "high yellow" and other coloring / complexion designations and gradients. Whether the name was borrowed from that usage, or whether Southern Blacks who knew the Redbones used the term to describe African Americans with a similar complexion or coloring, I don't know. But it certainly appears to be a term APPLIED to them, and has to do with a way of pointing to their "difference" in terms of color--and by difference, I mean from both the average Black person, the average Indian, and the average White.
Ramps were either named after the wild onions that flourished around them--and that they ate with a flourish--or the onions were named after them. Don't know which.
"Brass Ankles" sounds to me like the name of a tribe or band of Indians ... like "Blackfeet." Maybe they had a custom of fashioning some kind of ankle bracelets, or maybe at some point a couple of early ones had the remnants of shackles on their ankles.
But none of these are similar to the term "Melungeon," and none have foreign word at the root ... which is to say that the terms and expressions were not brought here from somewhere else. And--with the possible exception of "Brass Ankle" they were not applied to the group internally, but externally by outsiders.
I realize that many on this list want the rest to believe that "Melungeon," too, was was applied by outsiders, but I think the evidence shows that is a perposterous fraud of an idea meant to serve the agendas of a few with designs on taking over where Brent Kennedy left off ... namely, popping down yet another goofy rabbit hole in search of another lost colony pre-dating Boone in Tennesse, or pre-dating Jamestown in Virginia. Both are foolish, simple-minded ideas. Fear of the African at the head of Melungeon lines is the fuel for these kinds of fairy tales.
At least that's my opinion.
Curtis friend9
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