The tribe is alive. This is a place to gather collective knowledge.
Each of us has a piece, if you chose to click on this page, you have a piece. Whether your share that piece or not is up to you.
I write this blog to bounce around ideas and theories with others, about the existence of my Tribe. This is not meant to exclude those from other Tribes. The other Tribes have a land to call home (its their choice to continue to live away from it).
We are an accepting Tribe. Generally, any cultural/ethnic background have come to our Tribe and we have accepted you. From the creamiest white to the silkiest black. That cannot be said of other cultures, no science needed, you know its true. Its one of our most redeeming qualities and it is clearly out of balance.
This blog is meant to sound the Tribal trumpets. Each post is geared towards providing a different perspective in order to complete the story told to the world by the victors.
The indigenous were not allowed to practice their culture, thereby not allowed to pass down collective knowledge built over thousands of years, thereby not allowed to keep the collective memory of self, alive. They, instead, were forced to assimilate in order to survive. The assimilation is still alive today in the exact same form. The colonizers brought with them: trinkets, alcohol, and “technology” to indigenous lands. They brought quicker, newer, and different ways to do things. These things may have made life a bit easier. These things may have caused infighting amongst groups (divide and conquer). At any rate, Tribal members began moving away from the tribes and into the cities where the Europeans were.
The tribal ways were being seen as old, backwards, uneducated, and eventually shunned. Instead of keeping cultural autonomy intact, we allowed it to ooze away with each passing generation until we were in physical chains.
Indigenous peoples have always come in varying skin tones and we still do today. When the captors arrived some indigenous people had dark skin, some had light, some in between, and as told to me by public school in the U.S. none of them had white skin. It wasn't until later when recent groups of captives arrived already in chains. The indigenous were not let go upon the arrival of this new lot, they were comingled, bred to produce strong stock. A practice similar to horse/dog breeding. There was no differentiation between the African arriving after 1492 and the African descendants already inhabiting the land who happened to lose the battle and became #captives.
The Tribe is alive
Indigenous Nomad
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