America's Forgotten Mixed Race Ethnic Groups. European, African, and American Indian

Today, we're going to discuss the history of America's forgotten ethnic groups of multiracial origin, such as the Melungeons, Redbones, and more! This video is specifically over established ethnic groups that just so happen to be of multiracial origin, rather than simply all mixed race Americans, who may not be of any specific ethnic group.
Happy late Independence day everyone, for those who don't know, the 4th of July is when the United States celebrates it's declaration of independence from the British empire (shoutout to all my British subs.)
Go ahead and let me know your thoughts on the different mixed race ethnic groups of the Americas! Huge thanks and shoutouts to my Patreon donators:
-Recho B.
-Kelvin M.
-Blake CR.
Thanks for watching!

[@Masaman]

Happy late Independence day fellas. Let me know your thoughts on the mixed race ethnic groups in historical America! This video is specifically over established mixed race ethnicities, rather than all multiracial Americans. Huge thanks and shoutouts to my Patreon donators: -Recho B. -Kelvin M. -Blake CR. -Mike S. -Kyle R. Thanks for watching!

[@nikitaxo8846]

I'm not sure if this is true but apparently black americans are native to america and that is why africa never sent for them back? The sioux tribe allegedly? IS THIS TRUE I'm not sure

[@bigmike5638]

Masaman you should check out the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina they are native Americas mixed with Black and are maybe the lost tribe of James town

[@bigmike5638]

Oh and google the last Aztec couple and go to images they look like black native Americans imo

[@theblkidentity2537]

Lisa Khadijah it isn't

[@MohamedMansour-qi7vk]

Hello massman happy independence day man and I see now your video quality enhanced with both contents and style also I enjoyed discovering these new mixed races of the U.S wish you all success man

[@dougla96]

Wonder why they don't teach us this in school but sure as hell teach mfs about "blacc" n "white"

[@solgato5186]

Diversity is harder to control.

[@MADNEWYORKER914]

BronxGorilla 96 Because they want us to learn their lies and fucked up history!!!

[@Maki-00]

I didn't ever hear of Melungeons until I was in my 30s.

[@prerog9585]

Teachers no longer teach, they are only allowed to facilitate learning. which translates to 'the stupid gov't does not want you to learn and know the truth and never know too much. Because then they could never rule you anymore.

[@The2fiddyridah]

so does freemasonry like tile squares in an occultists mansion

[@metamorphosis2312]

I am descendent of Melungeons on my Mother's side from Hawkins County Tennessee., My genetic makeup is Portuguese, French, Italian, Nigerian, Mali, Cherokee, Creek, Swedish. German. Scottish, Jewish And Middle eastern! I know this from doing several DNA tests as well as being the family historian!

[@courtneyalli4363]

Me too!

[@ALL1006]

Fascinating!

[@WilmerCook]

Family from Louisiana, thought we were just Cajun. Wrong I am just like the Melungeons. Native American, Portuguese, French, Basque, Spanish, Scot Irish then it goes into 4%,2%,1% and there's african, Italian, Roma, etc.

[@lindamaemullins-wr1jg]

❤

[@paulwinters7647]

They just keep rewriting history I guess, because when I was growing up we were taught Melungeons where in America before Europeans came here and nobody knew where they came from

[@ThePoisonBiscuit]

This is quickly becoming my favourite channel. It's refreshing to hear someone analytically discuss race from a totally non partisan position.

[@gulnaazafzal8650]

I get bowled over by the knowledge of this boy -- He is absolutely learned! Keep it up, chap!

[@Alloydiv]

Gulnaaz Afzal That’

[@wackyruss]

White people in America in general are all mixed up too. A mix of British, Scots-Irish, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Slavic etc. but that's another video topic!

[@Masaman]

Russell Solomon Indeed, a topic for another video, just like Latino Americans and Black Americans.

[@ryanwhoadie7843]

Russell Solomon. so your saying your mixed but all the so called races you just munched are all white people lol.

[@osiruskat]

Ryan Whoadie so called "white people" like Scandinavians have slightly "Asian" or seemingly Asian from the indigenous of Russia, Norway and Finland. The Eurasian Steppes had a population of mixed ancesy from Iranians, Turkic people, Uralic speakers,Viking and Celts. The Huns at one time ruled a lot of what is now Hungary and Germany. The appearance of "white" skin has been theorized to have occurred around 8 to 10 thousand years ago after many generations of isolation from Gaul, Middle Eastern early farmers and people from the Steppes that split boy of Central Asia

[@osiruskat]

Correction: split out of Central Asia....

[@mudejartrainingnaturalscie6938]

osiruskat There is no European continent, Europe is not a Continent. There's only Asia. Asia major and Asia minor.

[@kaleahcollins4531]

I recently found I have creole gullah/ geechee and melungeon ancestry as well as maroon

[@MrJecossey]

Welcome to the fam. I was raised

[@gypsyguy40]

Da fuck is that?

[@proudmisogynistracisthomop1280]

@@gypsyguy40 lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@carmaela2689]

You are a mix of people who carved out lives under tough surroundings and who weren't going to be pushed around. Be proud. That's really cool!

[@dkeelin]

do a video on extinct and endangered ethnic groups please

[@drag0n_rage682]

legofreak446 european isn't an ethnic group

[@KSmithwick1989]

The Punjabi population is 120 million, the Punjabi population is larger than the entire Philippines (#12). The Yazidis (population 200,000-700,000) are in fact endangered in the religious and cultural sense. Although from a genetic standpoint they are Kurdish and speak a North Kurdish dialect. It is best to describe the Yazidi as Kurdish people, which still observe their original pre-Islamic religion. The Kurdish people themselves are not endangered, with the Kurdish Institute of Paris estimating a population between 36.4-45.6 million. They also inhabit a de-facto autonomous state in Northern Iraq (established in 2005), safeguarding future population growth. The Druze are rare at a population between 800,000 and 2 Million. Although the nearby Samaritans are critically endangered at a population of 777 members. Do actual research before posting.

[@drag0n_rage682]

legofreak446 blacks also make up a similar percentage of the world's population, so by that logic blacks are also endangered

[@drag0n_rage682]

legofreak446 oh of course, I was going by race instead of continent but even still that'd put europeans at 11 percent.

[@drag0n_rage682]

legofreak446 not by a significant portion, like with the asians

[@morganwatson1554]

I am melungeon! From east Tennessee Hawkins county! Love hearing this being talked about. Thank you so much!

[@newmanoutdoors1564]

Morgan me as well My Fathers family Came from Newmans Ridge .

[@kivanbrown7368]

Me too my understanding is my family lived in cocke county and surrounding area before moving to Knoxville a few generations ago

[@hollynonya6991]

Melungeon from Bell/Harlan county KY Miracles and Greens

[@hollynonya6991]

I was always told we were from Portugal

[@dylanhubbard2162]

@@hollynonya6991 my mothers father was melungeon from the ward, Collins, gibson, minor, daniels, castle, Goins and Sizemore lineages from Floyd and Johnson ky

[@7919AEM]

Great video! Have you considered doing a video on us Hispanics? We are by far THE MELTING POT of the continent. There’s over 1 million Mexicans of African descent, as well as European, mostly Spaniard lineage, but there’s also French, Portuguese, Italian, German, English, Arab and Asian mixed ancestries with NATIVE AMERICAN or Amerindian.

[@selinaBARMAR2565]

Sounds like my genetic history, lots of diversity. I see it that we are all distant cousins.

[@TheNYCndn]

The correct pronunciation is (ma-LUN-jin) Also for many years they were unsure of their racial makeup though guessing it was probably a combo of Iberian, Native and Irish and/or British. However a genetic study was done a couple of years ago that revealed they are of Brit, Irish, Spaniard and African descent to the dismay of some of their community members. It is not to say none of them have Native ancestry but the long held belief that their tan complexions were due to indigenous relatives was actually because of the African ones. I spent my childhood in Virginia and am Native.

[@jameshouston4835]

That study was demoralizing, since my Mom had been raised with stories of Virginia Native Americans marrying the British colonizers in the 1600's, one being a "Gentleman" who married a Native Virginian of means. Ligon name was mentioned in "Who Do You Think You Are" for Courtney Cox, who has my identical ancestors who left VA to go to Kentucky. Our ancestors traced to Norman William the Conqueror.

[@keptins]

The NYC ndn I thought the Turkish origins of the Melungeons were a common knowledge since many of them have the "anatolian bump"

[@hajjibarbara2900]

Hi people. Actual Melungeon here. My ggggggggggreat grandmother (born in England and migrated to colonial Virginia) was raped by "Indians" in the 1730s. One of which was evidently sired by/descended from an African slave because every man in my line carries the E1B1A Y-DNA marker with a rare mutation signature. She gave birth to a mixed race child and never married. He went on to earn a small inheritance from his maternal grandfather and would go on to own slaves of his own. He fought in the French and Indian War and his sons fought in the American Revolution. Their descendants would go on to fight for the Confederacy. I don't know where uninformed people keep getting this Spanish/Turkish/Gypsy crap from. We're all mostly Anglo Germanic blends with a drop of African and Native American. There are two distinct lines to my distant relatives. One (mine) looks mostly white while the other has a distinct Afro Indian look to them. I have a year round tan bordering on looking Mexican if I spend too much time in the sun and I also have full lips, broad nose, bubble butt, ripped chest and six pack. Didn't get the giant wang though I've never had any complaints. Do these "typical" African features show up by chance or does it come from one tiny strand of African DNA? Who knows. All I know is that I am not Egyptian, Italian, Spanish, Turkish or some other dumb crap.

[@hotgirlmidsommar]

i'm melungeon, and we do have african ancestry. but, many of us have southern europe and southwest asian ancestry as well.

[@hotgirlmidsommar]

general consensus of dna results i've seen are west european, southern european, african, and southwest asia, native. sometimes iberian.

[@elisolomon6173]

Nice work, Mason. You've obviously put a lot of work into your research. You taught me something today. Thank you.

[@lawrencenicolin3375]

It is impossible not to like your videos........brilliantly well-researched and informative. This is most welcome in our largely stereotyped and prejudiced world.

[@Joshfuentes77]

Thank you for putting out this content:) I would definitely want to see a video about Mestizos:D Thanks again:)

[@byron3176]

I thought "Redbone" was just a nickname we gave light skinned black women...I learned something today!

[@VTPSTTU]

I grew up in East Tennessee, and I've been interested in the Melungeons since i was a kid. (We have always pronounced the word with the "g" having a "j" sound and the "eo" having a "u" sound.) The real makeup of these people may not be as clear as what you are saying here. Undoubtedly, many escaped slaves came to this area to get away from those who would take them back into slavery. Others who were of mixed black and white ancestry may have fled here also to avoid the prejudice that they would find in more populated areas. To some extent, they may have mixed with the original Melungeon groups, but many have thought that the original Melungeons had only a small African contribution to their makeup. Different DNA studies at different times have come up with different results. When these people first met settlers going west, they claimed to be "Porta-gee" which everyone took as their form of the word "Portuguese." While we can understand why descendants of escaped slaves would want to identify as Portuguese to avoid being taken back into slavery, their choice of this claim is still interesting and may be a clue to other parts of their background. I'm not as versed in the details as I once was, but some have suggested language connections between some Cherokee words and some Turkish words. One researcher found where Francis Drake had rescued about 400 Ottomans from a Portuguese prison in Brazil and left them on the coast of Virginia because he found settlers on the coast who wanted to return to England. He was going to return to take them back to England and eventually return them to their home in Turkey, but when he returned, they were gone. The genetic presence of middle-eastern DNA in the Melungeons might come from this kind of situation. Some of the past research showed that many people of many different backgrounds were dumped on the eastern coastline for various reasons. Survivors of these groups could have ended up together and formed a community in the mountains.

[@chrisoleary9876]

I love this video. Thanks for including "Redbones" here. I think the Gaels of Ireland and Scotland and their unknown origins (Goidel Glas & Scota perhaps) are worthy of further review.

[@toaster2428]

The Irish are Meditaranian and the Scottish are The White.

[@houzeroze]

Dominicans. We are the first mixed ethnic group in America (continent).

[@thinblacknoodles]

True

[@PsychicMediumAlyssaGrace]

Romani*

[@rockym9981]

Melungeon is pronounced (Muh-lun-jin) and Coahuila is pronounced (Co-uh-wee-la). Otherwise, great video! Another interesting mixed-race group in the U.S. are the Alaska Creoles. Most now identify simply as Alaska Natives, but they are indeed descended from Russian colonists and many still follow the Orthodox Christian religion.

[@desertboy1162]

Hey man can you do a video about the different ethnic origins in Iran from Azeris to Baluchis

[@verlan3293]

melungeons are basically what coloured brazilians are today

[@portugeseking7959]

@Kyle S. so Kyle you arent Portuguese or Brazilian at all. If you were you would be iberian. Let's thank the white for not knowing shit.

[@NewYorkCityBoxing]

Cubans, Puerto Ricans, some Native American groups...

[@ricanredru4760]

@@NewYorkCityBoxing yeah...melugeons are basically americas "Trigueños" aka Tri-racal

[@tbreez6945]

African Americans have always known of the meleungon and the redbones as well as the Lumbee. These triracial isolates exist up and down the East coast. We've always known about Carol Channing, Humphrey Bogart, Abe Lincoln and Elvis. The DuSable museum of AfAm Art in Chicago has an exhibit on The Meleungeon people! You guys are really late.

[@char08fal]

I grew up in NC, I knew about the Lumbees and Louisiana Creoles of course. But I didn't find out about Melungeons until doing my ancestry & research. Based on surnames, paper trails, DNA & migration I've discovered there's a big chance that i'm a Melungeon descendant from my mother's side of the family. It also would explain why they're so much different from most of the AA's in the part of TN she's from. I just thought we were different & lived our own types of lives but now I'm starting to learn why.

[@bellacortez]

Lumbee ancestry here. The problem with Lumbee is they never ever acknowledge they are mixed and always just claim the native

[@shuffman8094]

‘We’ is quite a broad statement.

[@blancherobinson629]

Not me...but do now

[@Ric9hardify]

Great video, I’m Black American with Irish, Choctaw, Cherokee and Sioux ancestry and my children are half Mexican in ethnicity. Thanks for acknowledging mixed race people.

[@theonlymeaning]

So VERY MANY Americans have such a mixed heritage, to a greater or lesser degree...I am a blonde, blue eyed descendent of such folks. Our phenotypes often don't reflect our GENOTYPE! Lactose intolerance, tendency to diabetes or , for example, instant drunkenness after one drink and the INABILITY to stop....teeth that don't fit one's jaw...food sensitivities, all are common among "mixed race" peoples....This video is quite well done~! Remember the huge move Westward helped people blend into European communities....families that have been in the Western US...Mississippi River Westward... have much more "racial" diversity in their heritage........and do not care!

[@mernie2011]

I was fascinated by your comment because I am multi mixed race and have all the ailments you have listed!!!!

[@glimmeringsea5105]

That is so true. Never thought about it. Completely mixed here.

[@charitysheppard4549]

I just found your channel today. I cannot express to you how impressed I am with your informative and well-researched video, from which I learned so much. I am excited to explore your other offerings.

[@brendanmcnally9145]

Very well done, Very interesting. I love learning about the ethnic mix of this country. It's all GOOD as far as I'm concerned!

[@DakotaCelt1]

Metis (descendants of Native American Women and French Canadian, Scottish, English fur traders in Canada and the northern US states.)

[@nb7316]

The term for English/Scott/Irish and Native Amer. coupling is actually "Country Born" :D

[@Callsign-Blade_RunnerSG]

Bruce Lee is actually a mix race too, 2nd generation Eurasian.

[@vtecpreludevtec]

Billy The-Kid Bob Marley!another famous mix!,

[@prerog9585]

Bruce Lee identified as and felt like a Chinese person. As far as i am concerned, he was Chinese.

[@johnnywonder394]

pre rog technical not

[@superphysiologicallevelsof1349]

No he was part black of African heritage

[@Klaharnchaiya]

Reinis Goldstien his mom is eurasian (half chinese-white), and his dad is chinese... african? u must drunk..

[@kakibackup2koujo612]

Awsome to see yet another video from you.

[@DesertMouse298]

I'm curious if you have ever studied or plan to do a video on the multi-racial or mixed race origins of the Lumbee Indian once called the Croatan or Roanoke American Indian. The Lumbee American Indian's claim is they are the Lost Colony. This was a verbal history given to these people in traditional Native culture. The claim is that they are the lost colony and therefore the first people on this land (after the coming of Columbus) to be "mixed race." The Natives took this colony of settlers away and hid themselves in the swamp lands of North Carolina. The story I heard told was when they discovered this group of people living in the swamps by new settlers they found a group of people speaking an old form of English. The people varied in skin color and had many dark skinned people with light colored eyes that stood out due to their unusual color. If you go visit the area where the Lumbee Indian lives and have their Lumbee Homecoming (coincidentally in July) you will still see people with this beautiful dark skin and light colored eyes that are not blue or gray or even green. It's like it is all those colors in one or perhaps looks unusual because of the contrast of the skin tone. I just know I have not seen eyes like this elsewhere, but to be true, I have not traveled much.

[@melvawages7143]

Desert Dweller you are describing Amber eyes which is the most rare eye color and people who have this eye color have both white/ European and African/black ancestry in them in varying degrees.

[@marvange2498]

Am part lumbee and there all colors in Pembroke but every ones no matter what shade calls them selfs lumbee..

[@onjegin6984]

you should make one show about ethnic and religious groups in former Yugoslavia...before desolution state had over 25 ethnicites, 3 main and couple of more religions and dozens of different regional groups and subgroups with its own identity, like Gorani people, Circasians from Caucasus, whiteguard Russian, yuruk and konyar Turks, couple of diffferent Gypsy ethnic groups, also Wallahians of different groups, native people in small Adriatic islands, Cici people in Istria etc..

[@stevensanabria1326]

We have Punjabi-Mexicans in our family and the Indian language part has completely died out. However, my cousins are routinely approached with someone speaking to them in Hindi/Punjabi/etc without even doubting that my cousins speak an Indian language. BTW, it's not the "city of Yuba", but "Yuba City". Not mad, just helping.

[@vancehawkins9524]

I thought I added a post -- apparently not. :) I am of Melungeon ancestry. Many people call themselves of Melungeon ancestry. When I use the term, I am referring only to those families whose ancestry goes back to SW Va and NE Tn. There was an Indian home given to the Saponi near the beginning of the 18th century at a place in SE Va called Ft. Christanna. The Saponi were a band of the Eastern Siouan people. After the Tuscarora and Yamasssee Wars, which ended about 1717, there were just a few of these people still alive, with the main branch called "Catawba". All the Eastern Siouan people became known as "Catawba" eventually. At Ft. Christanna there was a man who was a teacher named "Charles Griffin". In the 1740s there is a record of a Saponi Indian named "Charles Griffin" -- he obviously took the name of the one time teacher. There is a record of one Melungeon named "Griffin Collins" in the 1790s in the region these "Melungeons" lived (sw Va and ne Tn). This points to an origin of the people being Saponi peoples. The word "Melungeon" is a French verb and it means "we mix" even today. And there were thousands of French Huguenots living in the Carolinas/Virginia. This is just the tip of the iceberg . . . there is so much nonsense written about us --- but the truth is simple and not complicated (Occam's rule). We descend from an extinct tribe, mixed with our one time neighbors, who are sometimes White, sometimes black, or maybe mixed. There was a 1948 article from the Smithsonian saying we are a remnant people of mixed Native American ancestry. My ancestors left that region long ago for Oklahoma where I still live. We were never granted tribal status, with the government saying we were already assimilated and of mixed race. I have a lot more ... :) [e-mail]

[@kvarley87]

Awesome channel. I hope it grows into the "geography now" of ethnology

[@keithmayfield6653]

, You are awsome! I watch all your shows and find them to be most interesting. You are wise far beyond your years. Keep it up and if you are on Patreon Ill contribute. Excellent info and really valuable for all Americans to watch. I tell folks about you all the time and encourage them to watch.

[@TheDOTKU]

The amount of research you do is so impressive. I love your videos!

[@osiruskat]

Good video. In most Afro American slang a "redbone" is a person of African descent that has a slightly brown reddish skin tone sometimes of Creole descent or just a particular mix from generations of admixture. I'm of majority Yoruba and other African ethnic groups including Kikuya, Mbuti pygmy, Amazigh and maybe Fulani, SW Asian, Creek with traces of Thailand and Scotland...I find Kayble Amazigh, Afro Mexicans, Afro Iranians, Siddi Gomi, Namibian coloured and "Negritos" of Thailand and the Philippines interesting.

[@char08fal]

Soooo redbone is an actual ethnicity?!? My grandmother & her siblings were redbones but we used it as slang to describe their skin, red hair and freckles. Wow.

[@yarekim5932]

The Melungeons and The Redbones are fascinating , along with the Quadroons and Octoroons . great short vid .

[@oppboyputt]

Thanks for doing this video! Now it make sense I know now what my grandparents were.

[@mernie2011]

I am very impressed by you and your research. For you young age, you are very knowledgeable. Don't let the haters win with their negative comments. Most replies are positive. Keep up the great work!!!!👍

[@xfiles4everever247]

Good video. Melungeon's is pronounced Mey-Lun-JIN. I used to live in Appalachia and took courses on it and had a classmate that was Melungeon.

[@handsomesquidward5160]

I love your channel

[@Masaman]

Dominique Govinden Thank you!

[@pbhoulden8212]

Thank you for posting this! I suggested the Melungeons as a subject to do a video for on another one of your videos but never mind lol. I've been fascinated by the Melungeons since my dad mentioned them to me after he recalled seeing a "20/20" or "National Geographic" TV special on them years ago. Black Seminoles and Choctaws are very interesting too!

[@andymullins84]

My dad's Gg-gfather was a Mullins who married a Gibson in Georgia in 1839 and I think both these families came from the Carolinas. I've heard these are well known melungeon names. This is probably where we got trace amounts of Angolan-Congolese, Iberian, and North African. The majority of his DNA is English-German-Scottish-Irish.

[@bonniechance7315]

What about the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina?

[@Masaman]

Bonnie Chance Wanted to include them, but unfortunately didn't have time. Will probably be included in a future video!

[@vutube379]

Bonnie Chance They lost their court case to be federally recognized tribe because it was a fraud from the beginning!

[@gloriabruce4798]

Bonnie Chance im told we are register. Lumbee

[@marvange2498]

Gloria Bruce am lumbee and it's easy to no if you are are theres only a hand full of last names . Are. You from n.c or s.c

[@jeanbekr7247]

I wonder what percent of Native American would be found in the Lumbee on a DNA test. They sprang up out of the blue after hiding for over a century after Andrew Jackson drove all the Native Americans out of the eastern part of the nation.

[@tmarevisited118]

We say "muh-lun-jun" not "muh-lung-ee-un" lol and it's "keltic" not "selltic" by the way, but I appreciate you doing this video and bringing attention to my people. You might have mentioned the Great Desolate Swamp Maroons and the Black Seminoles. It's hard to say which one, or ones I come from, but we did maintain a lot of our African and even some of the Romani culture. I've written a little on this under the pen name "Ray Hess" and I have another book on the way in which I go much deeper into these spiritual traditions. I decided to do this upon discovering there were other mixed-race Southerners who grew up with the same. I thought it was just "hoodoo" at first, hence that was the subject of the first book, but now I think it may be a distinct system that either influenced hoodoo, or developed from common roots. If you're interested, the first book is titled "Backwoods Shamanism" and it's available on Amazon.

[@rucussing]

Can you do the history of the white Chinese, the Uyghurs?

[@M.Đ-z4u]

rucussing then they are white not chinese

[@pdxtran]

They are a Central Asian Turkic people, related to the people of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and so on. A friend who had traveled extensively said that the Uighur neighborhoods of Beijing reminded him of the Middle East.

[@1zero8dragon]

Just wanted you to know I have found the most important KZbin channel that has been made so far. At some point in the future a very important individual will discover your archives and wish you did more. I am a first and third generation American from Britain and Canada and I know what your doing is trueley important and exciting. I wish you the best.

[@theotherartifactstoa776]

Most people have never heard of us. Coincidentally most of us with melungeon lines dont even know who they are

[@JohnSmith-hb7pc]

Here I thought you were Hispanic or mix Indian. Great video, by the way, I'm looking forward to the next one.

[@JohnSmith-hb7pc]

www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/15/is-being-hispanic-a-matter-of-race-ethnicity-or-both/

[@reekrodriqguez6552]

Hispanics are already mixed

[@JonDoeNeace]

​@@reekrodriqguez6552he Means American Indian like from the U.S. mixed with non Hispanic.

[@JonDoeNeace]

​@@reekrodriqguez6552He said mixed Indian like from the U.S. American Indian (Non Hispanic)

[@delaremnant4317]

Nanticoke here. Look up the Levin Sockum trial in Delaware. He’s my 4th Great Grandfather. Thanks for the video.

[@maximumsdecimusceckhladze3173]

Paul Barbato i love his channal and i love your channel too man. plise do Video abaut Georgians

[@maximumsdecimusceckhladze3173]

Khazars did not lived in Georgia :D they lived north of Georgia

[@djm122270]

Kudos, sir! Such an overlooked topic, but yes...here we still are! Much apprection! :)

[@doclittlejohn3261]

What about the mixtures of upstate South Carolina we have a high mixture of scots-Irish Cherokee Catawba and African

[@reekrodriqguez6552]

Doc Littlejohn North Carolina too

[@marvange2498]

In the pee dee to bit it not much Indian it mainly black and white...

[@fgialcgorge7392]

I always thought modern Hawaiians had a very interesting genetic makeup. My best friend is half Hawaiian and I went and lived with him and his dads family when he tracked him down at 18. Apparently, according to his wife, lots of Dutch, Portuguese (they say Portagee), Filipino, Korean, Japanese admixture, but they dont like to admit it.

[@sonjabw4197]

My great great Grandparents are from Virginia and Alabama. This is on my Mom's side. All sides came from the Ap Mountains. We are unsure of my great grandfathers Dad is unknow. All we have is a name Reeves. I'm Multiracial, Black, White and Native and West and Southeast Asian. So this is very informative thank you. Also is any of the Melungeon people can help me? I want to learn more about that side of my family.

[@FaaduProductions]

Do a video on Parsis. Zoroastrians who sought refuge in India fleeing from Islamic persecution in Iran.

[@doualdoual8106]

Kamran Ali Yeah that's a cool topic to be discusse.

[@debrakennedy830]

Wow!!! That was really interesting!!!!

[@gabbar51ngh]

Dad Parsis are good

[@s.a.8548]

India has the 2nd most Islamic population and was ruled by muslims for a long time lol that was a stupid move

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

​Mercury was a Parsis. His family lived in India for generations, then moved to Zanzibar, the island off the East Coast of Africa. Freddie, or Farouq Bolsara, was born there. He was sent back to India to a very English boarding school. Racial tensions after Zanzibar gained independence from Britain and became part of Zambia caused Freddie's family to move to London and he joined them there, to complete his college education.

[@larsentosh9710]

It would be awesome if on either this or your alternate channel you did a dna test and showed the results, it's kinda overplayed at this point, but since you're a youtuber that makes content about anthropology and have a very mixed heritage it would be really cool.

[@edsqaully69]

Hey nice video can you make a video about the ethnic makeup of the Seminole Indians and the groups of people with them

[@nterry894100]

Just quickly scolling through the comments it is great to see that they are almost entirely positive. Not sure if you are curating them, but happy about it. Good to see facts being disseminated. Keep up the fantastic work.

[@clbailey9586]

Thank you for this information it shines a light for me. I can't hide it and will not hide it.

[@mensa517]

interesting, however in Hawaii the Japanese mix are called Hāfu, which can be of any racial mix but primarily the black race as it was/is used as a term to denigrate those born of black soldiers and Japanese women

[@thefrontporch8594]

This would be so much better if the CC's were not so messed up.

[@ocirontariocryptidinvestig8010]

this is a great channel only yo go into any detail with these subjects

[@stephensheets1172]

I love your channel. This is fascinating stuff for me since I'm a mixed race American myself. (Potawatomi, Polish, German, Irish, Dutch, English, Cherokee, Fox, Sauk, French, Scottish, Welsh, Spanish, Guarani, Basque, Jewish)

[@mdodo2380]

The fulani (peul) people of west Africa are still somewhat of a mystery. Actually I saw a KZbin video that says the red bone people you mentioned are descendants of the fulani, they were said to be very good farmers and so were never enslaved unlike other Africans at the time. Can you confirm this?

[@TMCVisuals]

Heyyyy ! I love your videos! Do you think you can do a Cape Verde video? I'm Cape Verdean and we are a mixed race people from 10 islands off the west coast of Africa. Please do this video and please give me a shout out when you do it. Big fan! Thanks bro! -Tony

[@Otokichi786]

Hawaii is 2,000 miles from anywhere, so there's a built-in "we're all in this together" bond that crosses ethnic groups. Most long time residents of Hawaii have at least one or more "mixed race" relatives in the family tree. A local phrase goes: "No talk stink about X." (Don't diss Hawaiians/Blacks/Whites/Asians, because there's one in your family.;) The old time sugar and pineapple plantations brought over workers from across the Pacific, Atlantic, and the mainland U.S., and the "salad bowl" effect was the result. For some it is odd that "Meiling Gonsalves" could be the Narcissus Queen (Chinese), or that "Kimiko Agsalud" would be the Cherry Blossom Queen (Japanese), but that's the way it is when everyone is a minority.;)

[@rickydc0475]

Man i really enjoy "being in class" under this young professor! i just cant shake the feeling it's JOHN BELUSHI i 'm watching...makes it more fun as i listen to this well ' informed young man...always a good job!

[@terryasher4738]

I'm of mixed descent, 1636 Pilgrim. Talcott, to Munsee Delaware Lenape White Nations, of which most survivors were lumped in with Irish Slaves, by British after British Iroquois War with them .Which followed Pequot Wars ! Only one Talcott came to America, to become Ancestor to Millions of White Mix Bloods ! We are our own, Nation .

[@zedernaga9174]

Very good video :D just one thing, Coahuila is pronounced as /Ko-ah-we-la/ ( in IPA it is /ko̞äwilä/)

[@bbnicks4979]

This was a lovely report. It's time to stop thinking race and go back to thinking people.

[@courtneyalli4363]

Race is a term recently made up for the purposes of classification, usually for segregation and mistreatment of specific "races"

[@lindamaemullins-wr1jg]

It's a little more complicated than what you are sharing but you are on the right track 👍😊❤️

[@sylviaross5486]

I've always been told my paternal grandmother's family (Milner), from Southern Appalachia (Huntsville, AL), is Melungeon. I'm in the process of becoming a certified genealogist, so I'm doing a great deal of research. My paternal grandfather's family (Ross) is supposed to be Cherokee, but that's a common tale in the South, & I haven't found any link yet.

[@deepak5519]

Can you plz do a video on nepal

[@crystalcota2732]

OUTSTANDING-another great video, mil gracias Masaman.

[@JaxTheCartographer]

Hey there are tons of Sikhs in the small town of live oak north of yuba city

[@JaxTheCartographer]

and also tons of mexicans because it is a farming community so I've probably seen a lot of punjabi mexicans since my town plays them in sports

[@tannerfreeman5309]

Don’t forget the Tejanos. Before Mexico was a sovereign nation many Spanish, canary islanders and Native populations filled the mission and the presidios of the hill country and south Texas. This culture is still very visible in the areas around San Antonio

[@m.f.richardson1602]

Always wondered about Tejanos. Thanks

[@bulbasaur1232]

my aunt from Dallas (and her whole family) have been there since the southwest belonged to New Spain/Mexico. She always says that her and her family never crossed the border, the border crossed them lol.

[@saltyshanker]

so many hate comments on each video lmao dont mind them , keep up the videos bro :)

[@idag7521]

Thank you for the education. Greatly appreciated!!!

[@kcirtapelyk6060]

My moms family is from Eastern Kentucky and my grandma and much of her family are very swarthy. I was always told my great-grandmother was Cherokee and she definitely looked it. Some of my great-aunts and great-uncles even look like they came off the reservation. I’ve taken two different DNA tests and they’ve both shown I have small percentages of Indigenous and African DNA. I’ve also done a paper trail and discovered I’m descended from free people of color who lived in Virginia and North Carolina during the Colonial Era. And I also descend from Native Americans from South Carolina who somehow managed to escape the Trail of Tears. I guess you can say I’m part Melungeon.

[@Christina_Hira]

Punjabi Mexican Americans?! Wow 😳 so cool

[@tiluriso]

Masaman, are you of Middle Eastern origin yourself? I mean no diss, and with the utmost respect, but...you got the looks - aha! now I hear you're part Iranian - I nailed it. (I wrote the first part of the comment early in the video).The Iranid came out the strongest in your phenotype IMO.

[@NeptunesLagoon]

Great Vid, realy... I study ancient cultures... Enjoyed it, great opener to individual branches. THX!

[@FMCchannel323]

I absolutely love your content man. Keep it up! Please dont stop. Also, it would be nice if you could do a video on the south american countries, like the area of Gran Colombia

[@kyriljordanov2086]

My daddy's family were Malunjins from N Carolina who fled to South Mississippi in the early 1900s because of their involvement in some kind of horse theft ring. Growing up, people used to ask me if my daddy was Arab or Mexican. The black ladies at my Mama's office would ask if her man was 'all white'. I never had any answer to this until I started to research our family twenty years ago. But I had to go through a lot of small town public records.

[@quincybirwood2629]

Your videos are both interesting and informative. Keep up the great work.

[@sapphire911]

I have melungeons in my family so this is awesome to see 😊👍

[@orlandovelastegui1391]

I just found out I’m Basque\Sephardic Jewish and Italian from my father side. From my mom side Castilian/ Native American and Sub- Sahara African. Can you do a video between Basque and Castilian because most people think everybody that’s from Spain is Spanish. When their is Castilian, Catalan, Basque, Andalusia and all are different ethic groups.

[@NetanyahooWarCriminal]

My old yt account was banned and I've been looking for all my old channels I was subbed to.. It's been a journey but today I add this one back to the list

[@NewYorkCityBoxing]

The Brass Ankles of South Carolina can be found on the 1880 - 1930 Goose Creek and Holly Hill SC census. The names are Jackson, Russell, Bunch, Weatherford, Russell, Driggers, Swett (Sweat), Scott, and Muckenfuss.

[@seanwhitaker5164]

Thank you for discussing us!

[@sutzmiah4638]

very informative and well presented. I too have interest in the topics you cover on your channel. keep up the good work bra !!

[@peraltarc]

A delightful video. Thank you for preparing it. 'vive la difference'

[@ThatChainmecha]

I'm a melungeon decendent on my mom's side

[@Masaman]

ThatChainmecha That's awesome man! Would you consider "Melungeon" to be a slur, or a. accurate description?

[@Bendaman2001]

What race do you put on the census

[@ThatChainmecha]

I personally put on black, people kinda confuse my race constantly for some reason

[@franciscoacevedo3036]

ThatChainmecha remember whenever you feel alone you got a latino population thatl make you feel right at home

[@mikealpha6633]

very interesting. I'm hearing a lot of this for the first time.

[@CaramelMamiChula]

I see Iranian in you more than other ethnicities

[@pattymellon7740]

his wide skull definitely confirms that hey

[@sevrinaina6949]

Me too. First thought you are Afghan or some "stan" :)

[@shawnmoore1319]

Once again, great video! Keep up the good work! 👍

[@corakendrick6893]

Say Melungeeyon again one more time mother Fr . I dare you, hahah Melunjeon. Like injun.

[@PatheticHero]

Asusual you do incredibly good work. Thanks Masaman. Keep 'em coming...