Roberta Estes, Jack Goins and Wayne Winkler continue to run their lies around the country popping up on NPR http://www.npr.org/programs/tell-me-more/ this past week. For a reality check on the facts of the matter see the following site: http://the-melungeons.blogspot.com/
Joanne Pezzullo is one of the few truly unbiased "Melungeon" researchers out there on the internet. She keeps it real, focused and gut wrenchingly truthful. As a researcher of Native American history and the evolution of tribal issues in America I find Joanne's precise take on the "Melungeon" issue to be refreshing and reassuring that there are at least a few good people still left out there willing to tell the truth no matter where that truth leads. Instead of covering up Indian ancestry or mystifying us with tales of exotic ancestry like Gypsies, Jews and Turks, Joanne sticks to historical records, government documentations and anthropological findings on the mixed race communities in the Appalachians. At a time when race baiting people will run about throwing seudo science at the unwitting gullable public it is good to know that there is a voice of reason and sanity in our midst.
