Becoming MelungeonAppalachian legend describes a mysterious, multiethnic population of exotic, dark skinned rogues called Melungeons who rejected the outside world and lived in the remote, rugged mountains in the farthest corner of northeast Tennessee. The allegedly unknown origins of these Melungeons are part of what drove this legend and generated myriad exotic origin theories. Though nobody self identified as Melungeon before the 1960s, by the 1990s Melungeonness