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

[@tabathafeucht3513]

I had a friend in high school named Meryl. Her dad was German and her mom was from Louse. She had the most gorgeous eyes! She had Asian features and bright blue/green eyes. I personally think the mixing of people from different cultures and genetic groups is beautiful. 👍🏻

[@the4thempire]

You're a complete idiot. If everyone mixes together, true diversity and the uniqueness of different types of people will be destroyed forever. Fuck your race mixing BS.

[@gulnaazafzal8650]

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

[@Alloydiv]

Gulnaaz Afzal That’

[@ThePoisonBiscuit]

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

[@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

[@KuroiHato69]

I found this to be fascinating! My doctor told me that he was Melungeon when we were talking about ethnicity and I thought it was interesting because I had never heard of that group of people before. My family is extremely mixed. You name it and I am sure that it is in there. So I grew up accepting that somehow I am connected to everyone on Earth in some way! LOL Nice presentation. I really like your vids.

[@katheliz1938]

I learned about Melungeons only recently, when I read Big Stone Gap, a novel by Adriana Trigiani.

[@kindnessfirst9670]

We are all related to everyone on Earth already- regardless of so called "race" or ethnicity.

[@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.

[@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!

[@elisolomon6173]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@Joshfuentes77]

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

[@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.

[@brwneyesaz]

My family is of mixed too. I can relate. Keep doing these videos. It is important for historical reasons. Happy 4th of July.Best wishes to you and your family. Peace.

[@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.

[@crisdav7927]

legofreak446 lol Europeans are endangered??

[@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.

[@ChelseaHoffmancrime]

This was a really informative video. Thanks so much for posting it. I've had a hard time finding thorough information about Melungeon heritage. I did my DNA and have been researching my family tree and recently found out that I'm a Melungeon descendant!

[@kakibackup2koujo612]

Awsome to see yet another video from 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.

[@vivalacarlo]

I love your channel bro! Im filipino but i took a dna test and found out I am of European, North African, Kazakh, Sindhi (romani), Papuan, Han and Siberian descent too. Because of your videos, I am able to picture the migrations that all my ancestors made and how i became those ethnicities. Your video on gypsies help me realize that my sindhi dna couldve come from my Spaniard lineage and i would have not known about this if it wasnt for your videos! Being romani descent can help explain at least half of the ethnic groups that i am made up of. Thanks bro.

[@PsychicMediumAlyssaGrace]

Opre roma!!! Sastipe phral! Romani here as well! Melungeon native:)

[@gpl992]

Your Papuan came from contact and admixture probably with us neighboring Maluku Islanders to your South.

[@BBarNavi]

Métis are basically the Mestizos of Canada.

[@JonDoeNeace]

Exactly. And there's no real equivalent among Americans. There are American Indians with admixture from intermarriage with other groups. But those are groups that have intermarried recently. Not during colonization. This is due to the differences in British Colonial Policy regarding colonial borders which were not to be crossed by English settlers, as opposed to the French & Spanish tendency to just settle anywhere they wanted and ask questions later. Those who are American Indian and have other ancestrys from intermarriage are from recent intermarriages, not from all the way back during Colonialism, as is the case for both Mexican and Metis.

[@TheDOTKU]

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

[@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!

[@dominiquedoeslife]

My family are descendants of the melungeons. We have family from Eastern Indiana and the Appalachians. We've got a lot of ethnicities in the mix!

[@PsychicMediumAlyssaGrace]

Hi cousin lol 😆

[@jakesnake2612]

as always great content. your channel has quickly become one of my new favorites. i myself happen to be of melungeon ancestry and not to be nitpicky but its pronounced "mel-un-jun".

[@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.

[@djm122270]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@crystalcota2732]

OUTSTANDING-another great video, mil gracias Masaman.

[@big70booty]

Thanks for mentioning the Redbones in the "No Man's Land" between West Louisiana and East Texas. Alot of people forget about us. :-) My mom's side of the family are Redbones while my dad's side are Cajuns who transplanted from Louisiana to East Texas. Let's just say many didn't get the warmest of welcome in certain areas.

[@LauraGYoung]

Cool video. Much of my dad's family is Melungeon (pronounced Muh-LUN-jin). I'd no idea this was part of my heritage until I ran into someone who'd written her doctoral thesis on Melungeons, and she mentioned that my dad's surname often came up in her research. Growing up in south-western West Virginia, there were rumors of Native American ancestry to explain the dark-skinned people with light eyes in my grandparent's photo album -- but the real story is much more complex and interesting.

[@schellstarr]

Welcome to the community glad someone is highlighting such diverse genetic history. I always have and for years since my 20's wrote "other" on my documents when asked, which most often in my presence crossed out and another conformative answer written in, or a coded letter or number stating different what I wrote. I felt to do otherwise would be denying the rich inheritance in every aspect of life and living I was bequeathed with through having a mulititude of people ans their ways, means, views, insights, and diversely different life experiences, opportunities and obstacles all based on what who they were perceived to be.

[@boblenk]

Very interesting. Kudos for your work in bringing recognition to what has been, at times, a very sensitive area. We are all one!

[@kathryncarter6143]

Thanks for exploring the culture issues. Always cool to learn more.

[@DiMacky24]

Being mixed race in America is weird. The nation's obsession over phenotype has always left me perplexed. I just don't care about race and I don't understand why I should care. Growing up my parents never even brought up the concept of race relations, because they saw it as so unimportant, being from different races, and race had never played any important role in either of their lives (or my own). It was only after moving to the "tolerant" city of Seattle from a rural peninsular town that I ever heard a racial slur used or encountered a situation where people were being shamed for dating outside their ethnicity. Interestingly, in the outer suburbs of Seattle basically no one cares about race, friend circles are mixed, and inter-racial marriage is the norm and no one cares. So in my experience race is just an urban obsession and for the maybe 300K rural skinheads (0.1% of the population). Once I am finished advancing my career, I am looking forward to moving back to a small rural town where no one cares about skin colour.

[@GoogleUser-wy2vv]

You will have to move away from earth. Do you not know who controls the global wealth?

[@DiMacky24]

@@Federalblue81 Well, you are true to your username. I moved to San Diego since I wrote this, race relations are better here than Seattle, but still not as good as rural Washington. Small town America is still my goal.

[@carmaela2689]

For me, race is only interesting in relation to history....how race was used as a weapon but also in instances when people beat very difficult odds such as with escaped slaves.

[@123denuevo]

Race doesn't matter in the sense that it should effect your present day politics. And while I recognize that there is a thin line between cultural pride or heritage and racism or some form of prejudice, I believe that your heritage is important because it gives roots. It allows you to celebrate all of the factors that led to your existence. That being said that should not affect how you interact with other people with that have a different origin than you.

[@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!

[@NeptunesLagoon]

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

[@madamemarmot]

Very interesting video. Good to learn about. Great job, Masaman.

[@oppboyputt]

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

[@clevelandavenuee]

I have documented Melungeon Ancestry. I’m from Southeastern Kentucky, and the county I am from was highlighted on the map ironically. I have had my DNA tested, and outside of the British Isles and German which makes up most of my admixture, I am of Iberian, North African, and a small amount of Native American.

[@martinsanchez4827]

Did you have any West African or was that not there? and how much was the make up of the others in a percentage? Sorry if the question sounds intrusive just really interested in this topic.

[@sutzmiah4638]

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

[@yarekim5932]

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

[@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.

[@WILD__THINGS]

I respect your dedication to this topic. What got you so interested in it in the first place?

[@shawnmoore1319]

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

[@kvarley87]

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

[@Cummins359forLife]

Your video's are educational and well made. Keep up the great work! We are all God's children.

[@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.

[@quincybirwood2629]

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

[@johnegan3413]

great video Mason I really enjoyed it... keep making them

[@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.

[@appsource3466]

here in kentucky mixed people seem to be quite numerous in the rural areas.

[@char08fal]

Same in Northern TN places on the border of TN/KY

[@1234smileface]

Great video! This channel is inspiring for me on a personal level! The word 'Celtic' by the way is prounounced as 'Keltic'.

[@patrickmiller3195]

Dude, your videos are the stuff I have been thinking about my entire life!

[@byron3176]

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

[@houzeroze]

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

[@thinblacknoodles]

True

[@PsychicMediumAlyssaGrace]

Romani*

[@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!!!!👍

[@beaumontmuni]

Good clip Mason ... thanks for sharing 👍

[@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..

[@ocirontariocryptidinvestig8010]

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

[@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

[@idag7521]

Thank you for the education. Greatly appreciated!!!

[@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

[@Ladybug-uf7uh]

Thank you for an informative upload. I learned some new things listening to you.

[@PatheticHero]

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

[@edsqaully69]

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

[@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.

[@chairde]

This was a very well done video. Keep up the good work.

[@seanwhitaker5164]

Thank you for discussing us!

[@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

[@RetroBasementGamingAnime]

It's interesting that people always leave the African part out of the mestizo since the word just means mixed. Mestizos are not exclusively European and Native/Indigenous. Many DNA tests (on and off KZbin) combined with the history of where the slaves went confirms that a sizable amount of African blood has permeated most Latin American countries (the denying of it is somewhat racism due to brain washing, ignorant and how animal like Europeans and Arabs treated the African people). North America got very few slaves (most went to the Caribbean, Mexico and South America, such as Peru, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti, Panama, Costa Rica and Dominican Republic and more). Similar to the Creole, the blood of the slaves were mixed in with the European and Taino Indian blood. I hope if you do a video on Latin America you include the truth and not your version of what you want it to be Masaman. Hasta Luego.

[@JSharpe427]

I hear there are mestizos European Amerindian in Panama that have elements of African ancestry

[@charlesspeaksthetruth4334]

Kickative truth Shut your confused ass up bitch Lol

[@neo_9568]

Kickative truth You are one uneducated jack ass. Full blood native american....What an idiot. LOL! :)

[@jmartin6158]

Not true, mestizo was part of the caste system that the Spaniards created. There's another term for those mixed African, European, and Native American. I believe it's called "Pardo". Mestizo was used to classify only European and native mixed.

[@jmartin6158]

How is he an idiot? There is still full blooded Native Americans In Mexico, Central America and South America. There is 68 indigenous languages spoke in Mexico alone with Nahuatl being spoken by 1.5 million people and Mayan spoken by 700,000 people. Don't call people uneducated when you yourself is uneducated.

[@alkhan4921]

Really enjoyed your presentation and dedication of informative cultural history.

[@thesportstalkcountry3341]

Lol I'm one of those people that says I'm part Native American to get attention; I'm actually like 3% Cherokee but people actually think that's very interesting. These videos are great though! Keep it up man! I've always been interested in genetics and demographics, and this is the first channel of that kind I've been able to find on KZbin.

[@handsomesquidward5160]

I love your channel

[@Masaman]

Dominique Govinden Thank you!

[@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.

[@mikegamebred3464]

your channel is awesome!!! Keep up the good work bro!

[@TheMMFamily9]

Great video and historic information. Sharing😊

[@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..

[@deeMo81]

I love this, your page is amazing. As a adult I embrace my mix. I'm East Asian hapa Louisiana Creole with Irish 😁. So my mom is half indeginous Okinawan, half Louisiana Creole and my dad is half Black American and Irish. I have Mexican, Filipino neices and nephews and Chinese cousins. my boyfriend is a Chinese Filipino. whew 😌

[@levhdv2117]

Boring I am a Jewish, Transylvanian,Gujarati,Russian,South African, Persian, Azerbaijani,Jordanian,Israeli and Uzbek

[@Todo_fighting]

You're an orgy.

[@TheSFCjaymo]

EXCELLENT JOB!!! VERY INFORMATIVE!! Thank You 😊

[@granddame1000]

Please keep up your fresh outlook. I enjoy your topics

[@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

[@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

[@mahoganysmith9184]

Your videos are amazing and well constructed!

[@peraltarc]

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

[@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]

[@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)

[@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!

[@senshelive2121]

Thank you for the comprehensive analysis of the Melungeon people.

[@jonathanflores9874]

This is very interesting! I can relate for sure being Mexican. I have an admixture of British and Irish, Aztec, Apache, Comanche and Afrolatino. That's technically almost the same concept but from a different region which is Texas, New Mexico and Mexico.

[@davidmccarroll2280]

A Mexican with British isles and not Iberian?

[@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..

[@swineclass96]

Your videos are so brave and fascinating. You are a brilliant young man and you will go FAR.

[@scottwilliam200]

good video! i've watched a few of your videos and they're quite good! mazal tov!

[@tedarionjohnson5164]

So I'm from Texas and based on the way my family moved throughout history, my family seems to stem from Redbones and Creoles intermixing in East TX and Louisiana area. Most of my family relations in the 1700s were majorily within the region known to belong to Melungeon, and Most of my family in the 1800s were within the East TX/Louisiana region. My family's migration pattern and genetics seem to back up the notion of Melungeons settling in that area. It explains why I'm such a much coming from 2 multi-ethnic/multi-racial groups lol. I learned of the Creole I just couldn't figure out exactly how the other ethnicities came to be in my genes. But studying the Melungeons, things actually made more sense with my genetic makeup. WelI guess I'm a Red Creole lmao. In modern times despite being multi-racial, my family identify as black.

[@Movierebel3]

Sounds like me to a degree. I'm white, but my first ancestor to the states was a black slave that arrived in Virginia in 1654. His wife died on the journey over. Migrated from Virginia down to Tennessee and is identified as one of the Melungeon families. With a mixture of white, black, Cherokee Bird-Clan and Choctaw, along with Spanish/Jewish. DNA also shows Irish/Scottish along with Egyptian and Sub-Saharan African. I have blue eyes and blond hair. Also in Texas. Going through this process I learned you can't tell what someone "is," if that's even a real thing, just by looking at them. Makes me wonder what other white people have black-ancestry, because I know I'm not alone. My dad was adopted, so I really never knew all of this until we went through the testing process and started to research what genealogy information we had.

[@tedarionjohnson5164]

@@Movierebel3 goes to show how complicated racial identity really is here in America. Sadly it's simplified which has mislead many and warped their way of thinking things

[@yinondukhan1679]

intresting video. love it.

[@Ingi132]

Great and informative video. Had no idea!

[@angela_somanythings5670]

I Love Your Channel! Excellent topics!!