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From: Helen Campbell <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Re:melange!!!!
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:56:23 -0800 (PST)


Otherwise, I see no more purpose to this
discussion.>>>

Nancy,

Lindey is right, this is a good inspiring study on the
origin of the word Melungeon. Don't forget that not
everyone has had a chance to respond and perhaps add
more to this study of the French word melange.

Some Melungeons do have Arab/Turk/Portuguese in their
ancestry.

Beams,

Helen



--- Mike Matherne & Lindsey Love
<> wrote:
> It's OK, Nancy, LOL!
>
> This is a good discussion. It's getting people to
> get their minds
> moving, whether melange is the root word of
> Melungeon or not. I did see
> a posting several years ago by a visitor to the US
> from Turkey who
> outlined the word in Turkish. It seems to me he was,
> being a native
> speaker of the tongue and raised in the country,
> much more trustworthy
> than a brainstorm of suppositions. Still, anything
> is possible...... If
> I can ever make it to a Melungeon gathering, I'll
> have to do a Turkish
> folk beledi (dance) and see if anybody recognizes
> any steps. One of the
> last pow wows I went to featured a 'mixing dance'
> that was a two-step
> like my father taught me. It looked a lot like a
> Virginia Reel, which is
> a descendant of a Scottish Reel, which is a
> descendant of a much older
> line/circle dance. Since these things can be traced,
> too, maybe the
> music and dance is another avenue to explore besides
> food, architecture,
> clothing, and so on. Some of the Cherokee and
> Choctaw clothing resembled
> Levant clothing, such as the turban like head
> dresses, wound fabric
> sashes, loose pantaloons and so on.
>
> If I can find the letter by the Turkish guy I'll
> post it, but I may have
> erased it when we got our new computer a couple of
> years ago.
>
> Lindsey
>
>
>
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