Original sentence: "  It is seen as a more accurate term than "surviving Indian groups", which William Harlen Gilbert, Jr., used in 1946 and 1948.Gilbert, Edward Price and other mid-century researchers tended to believe that the Mestee groups originated from Indian communities which lost their Indian identity because of mixing with whites, blacks and mulattoes.Mestee has been revived by Jack Forbes as a term the old mixed-race groups in his book Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (1993) and many other publications.Mike Nassau also used the term in his book Melungeons And Other Mestee Groups (1994).Other groups with some Indian identification, such as the Goinstown Indians, the Person County Indians and the Carmel Indians of Ohio, have not been so successful.Since the 19th century, some of these Mestee groups have identified more with their traditions of Indian ancestry and have sought recognition as Indians.Some people of this heritage prefer Mestee to "tri-racial isolate.The Lumbee ("Croatans") were recognized by the state of North Carolina as an Indian tribe in 1888.They noted some settlements probably formed from mixed-race people.by J
Edited sentence: , in 1946 and 1948.As noted by Gilbert, Edward Price, and others, almost all of these Mestee groups originate from Indian communities which lost their Indian identity because of mixing with whites, blacks and mulattoes.In recent times, some of these Mestee groups are identifying with their Indian ancestry and seeking recognition as Indians.It is preferred to "tri-racial isolate" and is seen as more accurate than "surviving Indian groups", which was used by William Harlen Gilbert, Jr.It was picked up from Forbes and used in the book, Melungeons And Other Mestee Groups, by Mike Nassau, 1994.Mestee has been revived in recent times for the old mixed race groups by Jack Forbes in his book, Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples, 1993, and many other publications.Other groups with an Indian identification, such as the Goinstown Indians, the Person County Indians and the Carmel Indians, have not been so lucky.Some probably were formed as settlements of already mixed people.The Lumbee ("Croatans") never gave up their Indian identity and are pretty well accepted as Indian despite having a large amount of black and white ancestry