SantaCruzen
03-20-2008, 05:58 PM
I am Tri-Tribal citizen of the United States of America.
My mother's tribe came from Europe on the Mayflower. In a family affair crossing the ocean, only one ancestor survived. My mother's Uncle is a member of some old New England family historic society. Her uncle, my Great Uncle, and his wife held family reunions which drew hundreds of family members while my Great Aunt was still alive. She died in the late nineties.
But my Great Uncle turned 90 last summer and we had a Swedish Family reunion. His great grandfather came to the US and lived in the Swedish Colonies of Minnesota then North Dakota. Since my extended family does a lot of geneology, they traced our ancestors to common relatives in Sweden. So, we celebrated our history as a family last summer.
My grandmother had nine siblings so I have an extended family ranging across the U.S. My Great Uncles and Aunt still travel around the U.S. to visit extended family. They do constant research and add that to our family tree history which is given and stored by my own aunts.
My father is German-Cherokee-Ilocano (the tribe of Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines). I spent the last ten plus years traveling and giving lectures on Tribal Perception. What does it mean to be a member of Tribe?
Over the last several years, I had also included researching the Viking Tribes. As we all know that the Anglo-Saxons are influenced by the ancient Vikings. Europeans were forced to accept religion. The preservation of pre-christian traditions does find its way to modern times through the Mythical Lores. Irish literature is rich though I did not study that. I have been studying the North Vegr.
The pre-christian tribes of the Swedes and other Scandinavians were like all other tribes of the world. After studying tribes of the world for the better part of my life, there are distinctions and universals. First, as my own uncle had told me years ago, "A tribe is a family tree." Period. We are led to believe that a tribe is a primitive group of monkey like creatures. Not true. Tribal people have culture. Each culture cultivates unique variations.
For instance food sources are different in different terrain and not only that but there are different sources in the same terrain. Take trout. There are different types of trout in a river. They both eat bugs and the same bugs. Yet if those bubs become scare, one trout will eat bugs on the bottom and the other eats another type of bug. Our cultures are influenced by our food sources. For instance, the nomadic natives of america followed the buffalo. That is not true of every tribe in america. And, there are many more tribes in america than people know about generally speaking.
I find it fascinating to learn about the variety of languages, gestures, foods, art and music which are offered to the world.
My mother's tribe came from Europe on the Mayflower. In a family affair crossing the ocean, only one ancestor survived. My mother's Uncle is a member of some old New England family historic society. Her uncle, my Great Uncle, and his wife held family reunions which drew hundreds of family members while my Great Aunt was still alive. She died in the late nineties.
But my Great Uncle turned 90 last summer and we had a Swedish Family reunion. His great grandfather came to the US and lived in the Swedish Colonies of Minnesota then North Dakota. Since my extended family does a lot of geneology, they traced our ancestors to common relatives in Sweden. So, we celebrated our history as a family last summer.
My grandmother had nine siblings so I have an extended family ranging across the U.S. My Great Uncles and Aunt still travel around the U.S. to visit extended family. They do constant research and add that to our family tree history which is given and stored by my own aunts.
My father is German-Cherokee-Ilocano (the tribe of Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines). I spent the last ten plus years traveling and giving lectures on Tribal Perception. What does it mean to be a member of Tribe?
Over the last several years, I had also included researching the Viking Tribes. As we all know that the Anglo-Saxons are influenced by the ancient Vikings. Europeans were forced to accept religion. The preservation of pre-christian traditions does find its way to modern times through the Mythical Lores. Irish literature is rich though I did not study that. I have been studying the North Vegr.
The pre-christian tribes of the Swedes and other Scandinavians were like all other tribes of the world. After studying tribes of the world for the better part of my life, there are distinctions and universals. First, as my own uncle had told me years ago, "A tribe is a family tree." Period. We are led to believe that a tribe is a primitive group of monkey like creatures. Not true. Tribal people have culture. Each culture cultivates unique variations.
For instance food sources are different in different terrain and not only that but there are different sources in the same terrain. Take trout. There are different types of trout in a river. They both eat bugs and the same bugs. Yet if those bubs become scare, one trout will eat bugs on the bottom and the other eats another type of bug. Our cultures are influenced by our food sources. For instance, the nomadic natives of america followed the buffalo. That is not true of every tribe in america. And, there are many more tribes in america than people know about generally speaking.
I find it fascinating to learn about the variety of languages, gestures, foods, art and music which are offered to the world.