Melungeon \Me*lun"geon\, n. [Cf. F. m['e]langer to mix,
   m['e]lange a mixture.]
   One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of
   Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early
   intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North
   Carolina the

   Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost
      colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now
      legally recognized as distinct.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]