{"id":36842,"date":"2014-07-14T05:41:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T05:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36842"},"modified":"2014-07-14T05:41:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T05:41:33","slug":"researchers-discuss-origins-of-melungeon-heritage-at-annual-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36842","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discuss origins of Melungeon heritage at annual event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers discuss origins of Melungeon heritage at annual event<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

WCBY.com<\/a> (News 5)
\nBrisol, Virginia<\/a>
\n2014-06-28<\/p>\n

Olivia Caridi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

BIG STONE GAP, Va.<\/a> –\u00a0Wayne Winkler discovered he was a Melungeon<\/a> at 12 years old. His grandmother is a Melungeon. His father is, too.<\/p>\n

“I had never heard the word, so I asked my relatives what a Melungeon is. I asked what it was, and I’ve spent all this time since then trying to answer the question,” Winkler says.<\/p>\n

For Winkler and others of mixed-ethnic groups, attending the 18th annual Melungeon Union on Saturday was a way to get some answers.<\/p>\n

Melungeon’s were first documented in southwest Virginia<\/a> and northeast Tennessee<\/a> in the 19th century. “They are basically a mixed-ethnic group of a combination of Native American, European American and African American,” Winkler says.<\/p>\n

Researchers have attempted to document the meaning of Melungeon identity for years. Lisa Alther<\/a>, an author, wrote books exploring the history. “I always heard growing up that we were Anglo-Saxon and Celtic here in the mountains, so the most fascinating thing for me is realizing that we are here in the mountains really a melting pot of the entire world,” Alther says…<\/p>\n

Read the article and watch the video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researchers discuss origins of Melungeon heritage at annual event WCBY.com (News 5) Brisol, Virginia 2014-06-28 Olivia Caridi BIG STONE GAP, Va. –\u00a0Wayne Winkler discovered he was a Melungeon at 12 years old. His grandmother is a Melungeon. His father is, too. “I had never heard the word, so I asked my relatives what a Melungeon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,13743,8,5113,20,842,693],"tags":[9486,6797,211,17599,11414,17598],"class_list":["post-36842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-triracial","category-usa","category-videos","category-virginia","tag-arwin-smallwood","tag-lisa-alther","tag-melungeons","tag-olivia-caridi","tag-wayne-winkler","tag-wcby-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}