Slang commonly used in adjective form for the black gums a nigger develops from constant consumption of hot climate indigenous foods, also starched or sugary sweets. Sweetgum diet includes watermelon, grapefruit, kool-aid , ham bacon egg sugar jelly applesauce syrup and any other combination of low budget sandwich, gas station and dollar store checkout snacks, honey buns, lil debbie and hostess related products.
Eric: hey bro, look over there at that dark Precious lookin broad over there swallowing twinkies whole!
Ryan: Oh my god, I saw it! It disappeared!
Eric: yea man, that sweetgum appetite must have got to her early in life...
Ryan: Oh my god, I saw it! It disappeared!
Eric: yea man, that sweetgum appetite must have got to her early in life...
by Ez614 October 09, 2011
An ethnic group of mixed race people, mostly of Celtic, French, Germanic, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, South Asian, Southeast Asian, West African, and Native American descent, scattered around the globe but primarily concentrated along the shores of Lake Erie, in the Appalachian Mountains in Vermont, Maryland, West Virginia, and Newfoundland, and around the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and the North Carolina Outer Banks, especially in the city of Newport News.
Many people in London, Ohio are unaware of the strong influence of the Sweetgum Kriyul people in Madison County, and don't realize who has been hunting around Lake Choctaw using purple lights at night.
by Luv Grand Kalligeezal Island August 12, 2024
An umbrella term for various historical Native American-European-African triracial isolate communities from the eastern United States.
These communities formed as outliers to American society under racial tensions, often perplexing racial censuses due to not always perfectly fitting into the Black, White or Native categories due to their mixed heritages.
Many larger ethnic groups fall under this label such as the Melungeons of Appalachia, the Carmel Indians of Ohio, the Chestnut Ridge people of West Virginia, the Lumbees of North Carolina, the Brass Ankles of South Carolina, the Redbones of Louisiana, among others.
Smaller communities such as Pea Ridge people, Dominickers of the Florida panhandle, Sumter Turks, Keating Mountain people and Van Guilders can also be included by this term.
These communities were often targeted by eugenicists and segregationists in past centuries. They frequently practiced endogamy to avoid persecution from outsiders but many assimilated into the broader White and Black populations too.
Many Americans unknowingly are descended from these peoples due to the stigma belonging to such groups once held.
Consequently tracing geneaology to these communites can pose a challenge.
These communities formed as outliers to American society under racial tensions, often perplexing racial censuses due to not always perfectly fitting into the Black, White or Native categories due to their mixed heritages.
Many larger ethnic groups fall under this label such as the Melungeons of Appalachia, the Carmel Indians of Ohio, the Chestnut Ridge people of West Virginia, the Lumbees of North Carolina, the Brass Ankles of South Carolina, the Redbones of Louisiana, among others.
Smaller communities such as Pea Ridge people, Dominickers of the Florida panhandle, Sumter Turks, Keating Mountain people and Van Guilders can also be included by this term.
These communities were often targeted by eugenicists and segregationists in past centuries. They frequently practiced endogamy to avoid persecution from outsiders but many assimilated into the broader White and Black populations too.
Many Americans unknowingly are descended from these peoples due to the stigma belonging to such groups once held.
Consequently tracing geneaology to these communites can pose a challenge.
Identifiers on census records such "Black Dutch", "Black Irish", "Portaghee", or "Mestee" may indicate descent from one or more of the Sweetgum Kriyul communities.
by Teegarden Roses May 11, 2025
The Sweetgum Creole, also spelled Sweetgum Kriyul more often, are a large group of Creole people of West African, Western and Northern European, and Native American descent. Many have genetic ties to the Yoruba people of West Africa and to the Cherokee and Sioux Indigenous American people.
The Sweetgum Creole are divided into several tribes such as Ethnic Qarsherskiyan, Lumbee, Melungeon, Chestnut Ridge People, Carmel Indians of Ohio, and others. Chestnut Ridge People and the Carmel Indians of Ohio have been categorized as a sub-group of the Melungeon tribe. Ethnic Qarsherskiyan people and the Lumbee people are separate Sweetgum Kriyul tribes with their own heritage and cultures.
by Jafar Malik Husseini December 03, 2024