words and sounds audible in the Tribal dialect of English remains strongest amongst the root keepers, and mostly within the root centers.
Tribe: A social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader (English Oxford Living Dictionary).
Admittedly in tatters, “a common culture and dialect” still exists within the Tribe.
IndigenousNomad Theory: words and sounds audible in the Tribal dialect of English remains strongest amongst the root keepers, and mostly within the root centers.
How 'bout this perspective:
The consistent voice heard throughout #gestation is the voice of our mother. She heard her mother’s voice while in the womb, and her own mother heard hers, and so on. More than likely, this is the same voice heard once born and learning to speak. Unless there is retraining, children speak as their parents do. #Rootkeepers remain in the Tribe and keep the tribal ways alive within the #Rootcenters. They do not venture out to mingle with the occupiers unless they have to. They assimilicate up to the time until the law says they don't have to. Since we learn to speak from our mothers and she learned from hers and she learned from hers. At some point my Tribal line was not speaking English within the belly of Atlantis. The tribal language of my #Indigenous mothers was interrupted when they were forced to learn Spanish after being defeated (whichever way that was). The learned Spanish was pronounced with her #Tribal dialect and this was taught to her children generationally. When Africans were brought over in chains (Atlantic Slave Trade), my indigenous mothers were not released from bondage. They were co-mingled with once familiar DNA, customs, and #culture.
Once the English speakers came around, the language changed again and was Spanish accented with undertones of the Tribal language. There were no teachers sent around to teach each new #language, there were no classes held. There were no books, #captives were forbidden to read. They had to learn the new language through interaction with the captors. The captives brought into the house with the captor was afforded more opportunity to hear English spoken more properly (and on a more consistent basis) than the captives who sweat and toiled in the fields rather than the house. After the captors fought amongst themselves (Civil War), the captives were set free. By this time, the speaking dialect had been set and knowledge of the Tribal language wained. Eradication by assimilation was well in motion.
The more assimilication received by the captives the more the tribal dialect falls away. Those who do not #assimilicate beyond what is required, pass on more of the tribal language and culture to the children generationally. With more and more of the tribal vestiges falling away with each passing generation as we are all assimilicated, taking part in the very #genocide we say is such an injustice. An injustice to which we are taking part.
That’s just a small part of one perspective. I do want to know more of what happened instead of just the side of the current victors/occupiers. Tell me the story from the perspective of the captives. What was life like before the hunters came along?
The tribe is alive,
IndigenousNomad
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