Arwin D. Smallwood_Melungeon-Tuscarora.mp4
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After the defeat of the Tuscarora in North Carolina during the Tuscarora War from 1711 to 1713 and their forced migration to New York on the "Tuscarora Trail" or "Death Trail," communities of tri-racial Tuscarora can be documented in every state they passed through on their way to rejoin the Iroquois Confederacy or leave North Carolina. Many who carried the "Tuscarora Eye" followed ancient trading and migratory routes west and north where they say they originated. Scores of these refugees from the war chose to settle in isolated valleys and rural areas away from whites and their kinsmen of the Iroquois Confederacy. In these places they intermarried with each other and runaway slaves to eliminate their European characteristics. Others of their group intermarried with whites to avoid persecution but all refused to deny their tri-racial heritage. They were unable, however, to acknowledge their Tuscarora ancestry because of an order by the North Carolina Colonial Assembly which called for their complete extermination in 1715 following the Tuscarora War. As a result many claimed to be Cherokee because the Cherokee had aided the colony in the Tuscarora War and were revered by whites. Others refused to state their race or to be classified as black, white or Native American.
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Thanks for bringing this information. I do a bit of native and black history on my channel. I am also Indigenous Black Native American. Chahta!
Thank you for your research & videos. I am Melungeon based both family tree research & DNA testing. My family are from Eastern Kentucky & West Virginia. They refused to say they were anything but white. Racism in that part of the country is strong, yet so many people from there have black &/or native ancestry. I hate to say it, but it made my day when I was able to throw our genetic tests & family tree in their faces.
I also found out that my family is also British royalty. They were some of the earliest settlers & did intermingle with & married a lot of natives & blacks. The early history of our country has been lost for far too long. Science & technology is finally revealing that history! So fascinating!!
Thank you for your post. I would enjoy learning more about your family.
Arwin D. Smallwood I will get with you on my family tree & dna results. It looks like your contact info is in the description. Correct?
Yes my contact information is in the description. You can email me at asmallwo@ncat.edu and my office number is 336-285-2048. I look forward to hearing from you.
Please see additional links I have post on the history of Race Mixing and my research.
im part Tuscarora I had no idea they were melungeon.
I love my cousin Dr. Arwin D. smallwood
He is an intelligent man and I like how he "teaches" I have ancestors from the areas that he spoke of. Very interesting.
Many of the Melungeon families left Granville, NC and became known as Lumbee. Lumbee for a long time was named Melungeon. This group also showed Native American haplogroups and this group never went to Tennessee.
That makes sense. OUr ancestry shows the intertwining. My family is from TN and we share ancestors with Lumbees. I have lots of Locklear dna matches
If you was to look at the laws for "Free person of color" you would also see that Free person of color was legally anyone who was not full white. This was clearly stated in laws and also in numerous court cases where "Free person of color" was explained. Henry Collins was in fact a servant of Thomas wood however it was clearly stated in 1600's tha he came from Portugal.
To which DNA evidence are you referring? There have been a number of DNA studies conducted and to date most have been inconclusive.The only thing that appears certain is that most Melungeons and peoples of North Carolina who believe they are connected to the "Lost Colony" usually have some mix of African, European, and Native DNA.. They also sometimes have other mixtures particularly Mediterranean, Jewish, Turkish, etc. To discuss evidence email me at asmallwd@memphis.edu. Please give full name.
Alot of people learn about melungeons when doing geneology. I come from Appalachians on both sides of my family SE Ky area thereabouts. Stories are much the same when you talk w others of the same lineage. Everyone has a story about a"Full blooded Cherokee" Grandmother,it seems.
I used to really want to know what my true ethnicity is but it was in my face the entire time. Appalachian people are always looking outside themselves but at this point that IS our ethnicity. mountain families are very misunderstood and overlooked
Didn't Drake take the remaining, half starved colonists at Roanoke back to England in 1586? How is it that he would have left 300 Africans there if there would have been no colony to sustain? The famous Lost Colony of Roanoke was the 1587 attempt but again I don't recall any Africans being brought. Could you give me a source for Drake's bringing of 300 Africans to Roanoke?
To make better since of this, we have to look at the journals and writing of Sir Frances Drake who identifies the people who would later become called the Melungeons and the Lumbee's, of course no their actual ancestral identities nor heritages. Sir Francis Drake, perhaps the worlds most famous British privateer, who sank dozens of Portuguese and Spanish vessels, mentions the Moors, Moriscos, Turks, and Blacks as among those he rescued from the slave plantations and Galleys of the Portuguese and Spanish imperialists at the time frame of the early 1500s. There is an excellent academic work by Dr. Farouk Abdallah, (Author of Sir Francis Drakes, Turks Moors and Moriscos) and who has traveled and studied manuscripts in several languages concerning the early victim of war between the Moroccan, Ottoman and Spanish and Portuguese nations which resulted in those captives being freed by Sir Francis Drake and the establishment of the Roanoke Colony at Virginia.
My family comes from North Carolina Indian Woods and my Last name is Smallwood.
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Question so the people of the lost colony went all the way to Africa before they came here? I thought they were poor? Question so all negros who have different colored eyes are mixed even if they weren't in NC? Is that what your saying?
My family is from Halifax county, NC. My cousins have green eyes. I’m hoping to get in contact with this brother. I need help and you’re answering 99% of my questions
My Great Grandfather is Half Melungeon, From the mountains. White people were very mean to him and also his Mother's side of the family who were of Welsh decent. It was and is very hard for them.
Ms. Bates I would enjoy talking with you about your family's history. Please send me and email and I will send you additional materials. My email is asmallwo@ncat.edu all the best.
Arwin D. Smallwood, I and my family know very little of my Great Grandfather's Father. I will let you know when I and my Mother find out more about him.
Were you able to find any information on your grandfather?
No such thing as half melungion. You either are or you aren’t.
Actually Melungeons had Q1a3a in several of their DNA results, they was also called Native American BEFORE coming to Tennessee. In fact Vardy Collins' grandaddy Henry Collins was a man from Portugal who lived in the Saponi village. The Supreme court ruled in favor of Melungeon people being Native American blood BEFORE coming to Tennessee also, this was in the Martha Simmerman trial.
Collins is also the most found surname among South East tribes, The oldest reservation in America to this day has Collins living on the reservation, Tecumseh's brother in law was a Collins, The Maryland Piscatways claim their native blood thru the Collins family, the woman who works at the Smithsonian's native american Dept in D.C also claims her native blood thru the Collins family (Gabrielle Tayac). Federal Catawba's contains many of the Collins. World's strongest Native is a Collins also.
My husband's family are collins/gibsons/Mullins all from Hancock Tennessee. His 7th great grandfather is vardemon navarrah collins who started vardy valley and was married to Margaret Gibson. I have also found family who was listed as white then 10 years later listed as mulatto. I have traced them back to multiple regions of Indian tribes ranging from pumunkey, saponi, crowatan, powhatan, and algonquin but never had a solid lead on them being a tribal member although some of them it's hard to find tribal rolls on unfortunately. But I won't give up I will find my answer for my husband. His 3rd great grandfather is bud rand collins who was another famous collins from Tennessee because of his long life span but it truly is amazing finding out this stuff
TURKS HAVE BEEN HERE FOR ANLONG TIME BEFORE COLOMBO
How does one go about having the DNA test done to check? My mother was Tuscarora her father was Cherokee and my father was Onondaga. Now to find out for sure my fathers records are sealed as he and his sister had been adopted in Penn. Being raised in this area all my life (But born in Maxwell AFB Ala.) I would like to see more research into this area Robeson, Scotland. Richmond Marlboro (SC) etc. I have heard tells of small tribes from the Cheraws Pee Dees etc. To me most of the tribes got mixed with each other as the settlers started moving in and taking over lands. The tribes had no records before the settlers came and the settlers only kept up with the main contacts that they needed at the time. The smaller tribes would fall through the cracks and join the bigger tribes. But that is my view.
Heedeh cheenuh this is the case with the Lumbee tribe. Many different tribal members, along with African and European admixture, but the connecting factor was the Native heritage. But because Lumbee don't fit in the white mans definition of Native American they don't get any acknowledgment. And sadly because many of these people didn't resemble Natives, they were recorded as being Black, this is the case with my family.
No worries friend.
For question 1 - the answer is no. The English and Africans crossed the Atlantic ocean during Colonization and exploration along with the Spanish, French, Dutch and other European nations after 1492.
Question 2 - Yes, Africans (Negros) had Brown eyes. Any with Green, blue or Gray eyes could have only developed them from mixing with Europeans. Native Americans also had brown eyes. So Negros with different colored eyes would not have come from mixing with un mixed Native Americans.
So yes this is what I am saying. If you want power-points and reading materials that provide more information email me at asmallwo@ncat.edu
My great great great grandfather Jonathon Campbell Strickland married into the Martin's from Acquia Creek area in Stafford County, Virginia. John Asa Martin's father moved down to Cheraws Nest on the PeeDee. William Taptico of the Wicocomico Nation is also my 11th Great Grandfather.
I’ve been trace my bloodline to find out I have Tuscarora in my bloodline and Native American
Also the BIA stated Melungeons was Native American before coming to Tennessee also.
There were Africans at Roanoke in 1586-87?
I believe my mom is part melougeoun.
mr. burns I agree with you on the items you state,,, we still like you arwin,,,LOL,,, we all can agree to disagree,,,on some topics ,,,,any way,,,,
There are more sources than I can list here. If you want more sources please email me at asmallwd@memphis.edu
Walter Bigges. A summarie and true discourse of Sir Francis Drakes West Indian Voyage Wherein were taken the townes of Saint lago, Saneto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine: With Geographical Mapps exactly describing each of the townes with their situations, and the manner of Armies approaching to the winning of them. London: By Richard Field, 1589.
There were no Africans left on road no island because they brought no Africans in the 1500s to the new world. This guy needs to a little bit more research
So....DNA evidence does not support your theory Smokey.
now with all this said none of my family had any blacks on both sides, some may but many did not so all the Tuscarora are not black as this seems to make them
Thank you for this I have Tuscarora 🩸 James/Patterson