melungeon connection
Hello, I just wanted to give a theory as to why the term melungeon may have started. In those days all the smaller tribes killed by whites had to begin to band together. These natives were known to both the Indians ( Shawnee ) and the white settlers. This group had a very wild racial make up being the children or mixed races and mixes of different Indians. These were the Indians known to both settlers and indians as MINGOS.I think we are the mingos, the lost group.In referring to the melungeon group the person meerly referred to a Mingo or a melungeon mix.