The author, in researching her own questions about her genealogical roots has found an interesting twist regarding the background of descendants who may have given her brown skin, while her brown family insists that they are white. It was this search for a mythical cherokee princess which led to the discovery of the Melungeons. Hundreds of years of oral and phyical proof exists in the Americas proving that the aborigines were not the only race around. There were also people of Tri-racial background. 400 B.C. The culture of the Olmecs had giant heads of statues which had three faces on them, one each of Negroid, Caucasian, and Asian.
Some features also appear to be Phonician.
These aliens entered the Gulf of Mexico during the original construction of the Ceremonial Court in La Venta. Many tales exist, not only amoungst the Cherokee, but from all tribes of a people who live underground, and who live in a world which mirrors our own, but with no death and no unhappiness. The most practical explanation of these people are that they are the direct desendants of Portuguese sailors shipwrecked off the Cape Hatteras in the 1500's, or deserters of De Soto's expedition in 1539. There is oral history to suggest that they inter-married with a band of Indians named the Sara Indians. Some of them have striking blue eyes and sharp aquiline features.