{"id":34552,"date":"2013-11-01T20:59:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34552"},"modified":"2016-04-12T02:32:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T02:32:55","slug":"analysis-of-a-tri-racial-isolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34552","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of a Tri-Racial Isolate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Analysis of a Tri-Racial Isolate<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Human Biology<\/a>
\nVolume 36, Number 4<\/a> (December 1964)
\npages 362-373<\/p>\n

William S. Pollitzer<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Anatomy
\nUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n

Based on a paper presented at the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Philadelphia, May 2, 1962<\/em><\/p>\n

A relatively isolated population in the state of North Carolina<\/a>, composed of persons who call themselves Indian but who appear to be of tri-racial origin<\/a>, provides a model for the study of analysis by gene frequencies of a mixed population of White, Negro, and Indian ancestry.<\/p>\n

A people considered Indian is known to have occupied this territory by the mid-eighteenth century; they spoke English, tilled the soil, and owned slaves. English, Scotch Highlanders<\/a>, and French Huguenots<\/a>\u00a0migrated into the area in the eighteenth century also. Planters from neighboring states settled in this vicinity, often bringing slaves and a few free Negroes with them. The most common names of the free Negroes are the same as those of the present-day mixed population.<\/p>\n

The origin of the Indian component of this hybrid population is open to speculation; three ideas have been advanced. The most colorful theory is that the people of the present isolate are the descendants of Raleigh’s<\/a> famous “Lost Colony<\/a>” who mixed with the Croatan Indians<\/a>, an Algonquin-speaking<\/a> tribe on the coast. Some similarity in the names of the colonists and the names in the present population, plus a few cultural traits, have been construed as evidence for this view. Another suggestion is that the Cherokee<\/a>, a powerful Iroquois-speaking tribe who had general overlordship in the Western Carolinas<\/a>, contributed the Indian genes to the hybrid group. Finally, the view has been advanced that the Siouan<\/a>-speaking tribes who lived in the Piedmont<\/a> Carolinas, e.g., the Catawba<\/a>, were the Indian stock involved.<\/p>\n

Considerable phenotypic variation is found within the isolate today, with extremes of skin color from light to dark and of hair form from very curly to straight- The morphology of the face also suggests broad racial backgrounds. It is therefore of interest to learn what the blood factors and hemoglobins<\/a> tell of the composition of this population of multiple racial origins.<\/p>\n

In 1958, in cooperation with Dr. Amoz Chernoff<\/a>, blood samples were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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