Re: Melungeon (Cherokee, Kurdish)
Re: Melungeon (Cherokee, Kurdish): "''I have done some digging on the internet for the connection between Kurdish and Cherokee and the closest I have came is the articles on Melungeon''
Velissa,
There are many stories, myths, and legends about the Melungeons on the internet, most have no truth to them whatsoever.
I have never seen any connection between the Kurds, Cherokee and Melungeons in all my years of research.
Good luck
Joanne"
Velissa,
There are many stories, myths, and legends about the Melungeons on the internet, most have no truth to them whatsoever.
I have never seen any connection between the Kurds, Cherokee and Melungeons in all my years of research.
Good luck
Joanne"
posted by Helen Campbell @ 2:57 PM
1 Comments:
At 5:09 PM EDT ,
Anonymous said...
Velisa,
Before you trough the Kurdish /Cherokee connection into the trashcan, you may want to do some more research to find the origins of the Kurds. What you will find might surprise you and even Joanne who thinks she knows everything on the Melugeons and evrything written on the vast Internet.
Ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis
http://bioanthropology.huji.ac.il/research.asp
WHO ARE THE KURDS?
The Kurds are people of Indo-European origin who live mainly in the mountains and uplands where Turkey, Iraq, and Iran meet, in an area known as "Kurdistan" for hundreds of years. ( see map) They have their own language, related to Persian but divided into two main dialect areas. No firm statistics exist for the Kurdish population but a cautious estimate, based on their believed population proportion in each state in 1987 is currently; ( go to MAP OF KURDISTAN to see Table 1). Although the kurdish people are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, they embrace Jews, Christians, Yazidis and other sects.
Also, read Kurdish history at the Kurdistan Regional Government Home
http://old.krg.org/reference/index.asp
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