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As the 20th century was ending and the millennium contacted, a new ethnic category was created in the South. The Melungeons were created thrashing and squawling in to the American consciousness. These were a tri-racial clan covered away in the hills and hollers of Lower Appalachia with a hereditary predisposition to six fingertips and Mediterranean diseases and an unsavory reputation for moonshining, counterfeiting and secret cults. DNA studies demonstrated they were probably descended from Portuguese colonists and possessed relationships with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Local Americans and Romani (Gypsies). Were they the country's oldest indigenous people? They soon acquired on the radar of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Office of Identification, which fought the nascent id movement tooth and nail. This collection by two analysts mixed up in explosive controversy says the storyplot of the Melungeon Movement in a coherent, chronological fashion for the very first time. Fourteen original illlustrations, ranging from Granny Dollar, the last Cherokee Indian in Northeast Alabama, to Luis Gomez, builder of the oldest position Jewish residence in america, add interest to the portrayal of this mysterious and exotic ethnic community.
