MY LINE OF CHEROKEE SAPONI BUNCH

 

JAMES BUNCH ?

HENRY BUNCH

PAUL BUNCH (FATHER OF MICAJAH BUNCH "KING OF MELUNGEON"

MARTIN BUNCH

WILLIAM GREENBURY BUNCH

SAM F. BUNCH

WALTER F. " DUDE" BUNCH

WALTER L. "GOOSE" BUNCH

DAN "Dirty Water" BUNCH

DARRON BUNCH

A SON BUNCH

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My name is Dan Bunch. I was born in Kansas, an Army "Brat". By birth, of Native American - Cherokee; Choctaw, and "Saponi"; African ancestry. Having Melungeon heritage. My mother was a naturalized citizen, a Scot born in Hong Kong. My father, a United States Army veteran of WWII, was born in Texas, a Cherokee-Choctaw-Melungeon. My particular family line, having its origin along the James River, includes Pamunkey/Saponi. And Paul Bunch, brother of Micajah Bunch; King of the Melungeon. 

I was totally ignorant of African and Melungeon heritage, spending my formative years in Whitewright, Texas, where I was exposed to the typical "White" American youth experience of; school; football, baseball, and boxing, and farm work. I enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve at the age of seventeen while still a junior in high school. Seeing the murder of a President caused me to get irate at the wrong people, the Communists. Not that they don't deserve all the hate the humanity of the world's population can muster.

I had a multitude of experience in the business world. I got lost working in stockrooms of a large world-wide corporation when just out of the U.S.Navy, in insurance sales, real estate sales, and in custom home building. I am now retired with my wife as country "Ranchers", and call myself a writer. I can attribute my interest in many subjects to an early career as a newspaper boy in my hometown of Whitewright, Texas. 

I married my high school sweetheart Gayle in 1965, a brilliant woman with a professional carreer in finance. We have two children and five grandchildren. I'm a graduate of Grayson County Jr. College, which I attended at night upon my return from active military service in Vietnam. In Vietnam I was a crewmember aboard U.S. Navy River Patrol Boats, seeing service in the Rung Sat Special Zone, and in the Delta. Experiencing many machinegun, rocket, and mortar engagements with the enemy, I got a "Ho-Che-Min"; awarded in the field, my Petty Officer chevron, and obtained the rank of Gunners' Mate Missiles Petty Officer Second Class. I'm a lifetime member of the DAV; and member of a Navy Veteran association. 

I was totally ignorant of my African and Melungeon heritage due to a blood oath taken by Great Grandfather Sam Bunch, not to tell anyone about the family past during his migration to Texas. Several families migrated from Tennessee amidst the diaspora undertaken by those of Great-Grandfather's generation. Melungeons, Native-Americans; mullotta; who suffered Mr. Walter Plecker's insane plans to exterminate those of African mulloto and Native American ancestry in VA. Walter Plecker's plan, soon adopted by Adolph Hitler, was the inspiration for the infamous "Final Solution".

Whitewright, Texas is famous for the uncovering of the thief, and recovery of, the "Mecklinberg Treasure". This priceless treasure of church antiquities, hidden from the Nazi in a cave during the occupation of World War II, disappeared while being guarded by American troops.

This Bunch family is Cherokee; Choctaw, Saaponi, and African influnced ancestry, a Melungeon heritage. The Cherokee/Melungeon/African line is traced through these names from VA, to TN, to TX; John Bunch; Paul Bunch; Martin Bunch (brother of Micjah Bunch, King of Melungeon); WilliamGreenbury Bunch; Sam Bunch; Walter Bunch; Walter Bunch; Dan Bunch. 

The Choctaw comes from my Grandmother, Ronda McNabb Bunch, Whose line comes through Germanna influnce of a Conrad Rubin Willhoit of Govenor Spottswood fame. Some of the famous Carpenter/Farmer Bunch ancestors would include; a Nobel Prize Winner; a U.S. Senator from Tennessee; as well as a host of Military officers, soldiers, thieves, forgers, murders, and spies, dating from before Jamestown; the indian wars; and serving the British long before the of independance. Melungeons served mostly in the Union Army during the Civil War, due to their treatment by their Southern neighbors. The men and women of the 

Bunch surname have contributed greatly to the military defense of the United States serving in all its wars. I can attribute my interest in many subjects to my love of reading and early career as a newspaper boy in my hometown of Whitewright, Texas. 

Whitewright, a then mean small town in North Texas having no library nearer than the County Seat, Sherman, Texas, twenty-five miles away. Excepting the High School library, a meager collection of reference and well -chosen books of American Classics that was devoid of anything lurid, spicy, or mature, "woke" and bawdy. A collection accessable to any year-round. But only by scaling the outside wall and sneaking in through an unlocked third story library window. Being absolutely horrible at retaning anything "taught" to me, including the multiplication table! I fed my insatiable thirst of trying to learn something of every subject by reading all the books in that small library. (I later learned about Dislexia. If your early reader asks, "What is this word," whenever he sees the words; who, whom, what, where; get the child checked by an expert, they can help, so the child won't have to "yell" what he reads silently to himself, within his own brain, as he copes.)

THE BUNCH STORY:

My family started, they tell me, as Danish. Then fled to Ireland because of religious persecution. These Irish Bunch's migrated to where Scotland is now. They invaded but found so much in common with the people of the area that they intermarried! Commonality in following the mother's line for instance, and that will be inportant later, when mingling with Native American.

These beutifull people are known in history as the "Pict". The Pict were the original people of the north end of the island of Britiania. Never defeated by the Roman Legions, who stopped to build Haddrians Wall, one of the important constuctions of the ancient world. The wall was to built for control of the commerce, and to keep the Pictish hoards out. During war the dark-skinned Pict fought male and female, side by side, totally nude! An amazing site with tattoos all over their bodies! The tattoos of the Pict are where we get the word "Picture".

After the Romans pulled out of Britania due to problems at home, (The Romans were auctioning off the office of Emperior) the Pict and other native peoples attacked the Norman-Saxon, who in?vaded from the Germanic continant and took over the land in the English South. The Pict were defeated when on the opening of the war their fleet of ships was destroyed in a huge storm!

The Norman-Saxon, who had tried for centuries to overcome the Romans and take possession of the land conqured the native peoples. But instead of killing them all off they intermarried with them! These dark native people, with their tattoos, were very beautifulll indeed, because the Royalty of the Norman-Saxon intermarried with the Royalty of the Pict.

Yes! The Pict Royalty, my Bunch Family, and the Royalty of England and Scotland were mixed race from the beginning almost. Actually they were Tri-racial! Irish; Pict; and Germanic! There was a Pict Royalty, a Princes, Married to a Bunch, or had the bunch name from birth. I forget which. The English Royal family changed it's name from Germanic to English/French during WWII, as Hitler invaded much of Europe. If you don't know at least that much, stop and learn some "real history", which geno is about mostly.

Yes, they Royal family of Britian is of mixed race! Had paintings in oil of the Royal family not been invented we would not have seen this then either. Beacuse it was, later of course, fashionable to show, paint, the subject as being very white! Challenge that if you must, but be prepared to accept the fact that the English ate human body parts and drank blood long before they came to America to accuse the Amer-indian of doing this "barbarous" act! 

Actually the Brititsh imported much of the human body parts they consumed as medicianal. Harvested from the battlefields of France!Then My Family of Bunch came to America. Here the names and places are very fuzzy. Did my family come from the "James Bunch..." traded land for passage"? It would seem the family experinced the same, some coming as indentured servants, who were treated much the same as African slaves, except that outright murder of the bonded servant was seen as un-Christian! 

Many bonded were taken out of prision and sold into bondage by the Monarch, to enrich and populate the New World, and to regain any expenses and or monies and fines owed the Crown by these prisioners. Some imprisioned voluntarily came as a way to avoid prision and death, and begain anew. Some begged for death instead of transport, as the "middle passag" experience and death was very high. While survival after brutal abuses was very low and disabling for many that did survive.

One of My Bunch Family bred with an African servant. None that were "White" of course would marry a bondwoman. They all wanted to better themselves, and the way to do that was mainly, by custom, though marrage. "Marrying up" as they say. Another way was to be a military hero, or perhaps be Knighted for some deed to the Monarchy. Not many heroes are born, so they usually looked to marrage to upgrade themselves in English society. If you came up one step on the social ladder you were a moving man, getting somewhere in society, if only your son could do that well, he might become a gentleman! Only later did Plantation owners learn how to cheat the bounded out of his promised land and freedom.

The pages on this site contain my impressions and my thoughts. I am responsible for the contents! I write. Not only do I write, but I think! I wonder what you think of my thoughts. How can I find that out, unless I have the freedom, within constraints of all applicable laws, to express my views and thoughts? Express them in a context, and in a forum, and in a medium, that will convey them to you? That is what this is! Freedom of expression! Nothing more. But nothing less! I did not earn that right. It was given me by my ancestors! I only claim it.

Have you ever had a nightmare that you suddenly were not you? What could be more intensive, or scary, if you for instance found out you were adopted? Wouldn't that cause you to have some questions that just needed to be answered? Where would you turn for the answers? What if your family heritage left behind by a Great Grandfather was purposefully a lie? A lie of oommission intended for you to pass on to your children and grandchildren! A lie formed to hide you from the United States Government in order to hide your ethnic origins and keep your children safe from those seeking to sterilize them or place them into a mental asylum! To chase them down, take custody of them, and then house and treat them, just because they said and believed that they were Native Americans! I found that my family suffered horribly from their version in time of the "Homeland Security" efforts! A program so well liked that Adolph Hitler's henchmen put it into practice to rid themselves of a similar "problem"!

For a wonderful, and awesomely inspiring true story of a people's struggle to overcome all degradation and persecution and discrimination to become "normal" citizens of America, start your journey into a self-discovery of the Melungeon! This will be the beginning of the most amazing, wonderful, inspiring, and exiting adventure into history you have ever been on, I guarantee it!  Search for Jack Goins blog of the Melungeon and Native American to begin your adventure into learning of the courageous and strong-willed Melungeon! Also get his books, which are highly regarded in the Melungeon research world.