Every Tree Has Roots: Genealogy, DNA, , Bloodline, Tribe,Ancestry, Nationality, Citizenship???????

Family.  At the mention of this word depending on who you are, where you are, how you were raised, and who you are talking to, you will get mixed reviews, opinions, and perspectives.  Family is a subject all too familiar, pun intended.  Family being etymology related to " familiar" is a clue into the purpose of this missive.  Is Family Familiar? When most of us ponder that question, our knee jerk reaction is to say yes.  We all think we know our family.  Unfortunately those of us that have been classified " Colored" 

"Negro","Nigger","Black", or "African American" in America only know up to Grandparents and a few third cousins in some photo albums.  There are a select remnant of families that have yearly family reunions; however that is as far as it goes. 

In contrast with European culture, which has birthed "White Supremacy", they have a complete history of their bloodline, family trees, ancestry and nationality.  Family heirlooms, assets, wills, trusts, and legacy is all there and established.  

So-called " white people" can tell you if ther British, Polish, Irish, German or any other ethnic group that came to America via Ellis Island, New York.  

This same pride of family history, bloodline and Nationality permeate through Latino cultures, Middle Eastern, Jewish, and Asian cultures as well.  They all have a sense and respect for their family and cultural history.  Why don't we posess that.  

Because it was stolen and recreated into a mystery for us to unravel back to who we are.

Americas Pre Columbian --Tribal 

• Subarctic - These Native Americans survived some of the coldest weather on the planet. They include the Inuit people of Alaska who lived primarily off of whale and seal meat.
• Californian - Tribes living in the area that is today the state of California such as the Mohave and the Miwok.
• Great Basin - This is a dry area and was one of the last to have contact with Europeans. The Great Basin tribes include the Washo, Ute, and Shoshone.
• Great Plains - One of the largest areas and perhaps most famous group of American Indians, the Great Plains Indians were known for hunting bison. They were nomadic people who lived in teepees and they moved constantly following the bison herds. Tribes of the Great Plains include the Blackfoot, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Comanche and Great Basin - This is a dry area and was one of the last to have contact with Europeans. The Great Basin tribes include the Washo, Ute, and Shoshone..
  
• Northeast Woodlands - Includes the Iroquois Indians of New York, the Wappani, and the Shawnee.
• Northwest Coast/Plateau - These Native Americans were known for their houses made of cedar planks as well as their totem poles. Tribes include the Nez Perce, Salish, and the Tlingit.
• Southeast - The largest Native American tribe, the Cherokee, lived in the Southeast. Other tribes included the Seminole in Florida Chickasaw. These tribes tended to stay in one place and were skilled farmers.
• Southwest - The southwest was dry and the Native Americans lived in tiered homes made out of adobe bricks. Famous tribes here include the Navajo Nation, the Apache, and the Pueblo Indians.

Other Major Groups

• Algonquian - A large group of over 100 tribes that speak the Algonquian languages. They spread across the entire country and include tribes such as the Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Mohicans, and the Ottawas.
• Apache - The Apaches are a group of six tribes that spoke the Apache language.
• Iroquois - The Iroquois League was a grouping of five Native American Nations: the Seneca, Onondaga, Mohawk, Oneida, and Cayuga. The Tuscarora nation joined later. These nations were located in the Northeastern part of the United States.
• Sioux Nation - The Great Sioux Nation is a group of peoples generally called the Sioux. They are divided into three major groups: Lakota, Western Dakota, and Eastern Dakota. The Sioux were Great Plains Indians.

As you can see pre- Columbian America was Tribal and had Nationality, Confederacies and Alliances.  There were language barriers, trade, commerce, politics, industry, economy, and value.  All this was done under Universal Law unto the Divine. Native Anericans are the epitome of Genealogy, Ancestry,, Tribe, and Nationality.  It is only right I pay homage to a culture that was disrupted by imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism. 

Find out what States are named after Native American Tribes. 

United States of America 🇺🇸1492-1619

From the time Christopher Columbus touched the soil of the Bahamas; it brought 127 years of imperialism from Spain 🇪🇸 all over the Americas 🌎.  Portugal 🇵🇹, Great Britain 🇬🇧, and France 🇫🇷 all followed to capitalize on the "New World" to put it mildly.  Native Americans went to war valiantly after being misled by early Colonists, Puritans, and Pilgrims.  Massive bloodshed and lives lost during these 127 years of lawless imperialism. 

Virginia 1619-1776

In 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World marks a beginning of two and a half centuries of slavery in North America 🇺🇸.

Founded at Jamestown in 1607, the Virginia Colony was home to about 700 people by 1619. The first enslaved Africans to arrive there disembarked at Point Comfort, in what is today known as Hampton Roads. Most of their names, as well as the exact number who remained at Point Comfort, have been lost to history, but much is known about their journey. 

Upon enlisting into the U.S. Air Force I was unaware of the rich history in Virginia.  I was given ths opportunity to be stationed at Langley AFB located in Hampton, Virginia.  I didn't know what a Commonwealth was.  Virginia never felt like the Confederate South you see permeated through movies and Civil Rights propaganda.  Unfortunately I was naive.  Virginia is the capital of the Confederate South and the foundation of America. 

Sitting in the Virginia Department Of Corrections gave me a virds eye view of Southern pride, Commonwealth laws, racism, classism, and the other side of the 13th Amendment...slavery.

Declaration Of Independence 1776

In Congress, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

The Declaration of Independence in my opinion was a way of seperating from Great Britain in order to continue their colonial expansion with immunity.  With 13 colonies established and the Native Americans at bay; the stage was set for this Declaration.  They had enough assets to build wealth and thus a society and government.  

Civil War 1861-1865

There are many causes that led to the American Civil War. While slavery is generally cited as the main cause for the war, other political and cultural differences between the North and the South certainly contributed. These differences and how they created a divide between the North and the South that eventually caused the Civil War.  

The Civil War has often been depicted as a war to free the slaves. While slavery was a hot button issue during the war; history has shown it was more like a pawn turned into a power piece by the Union in a chess game against the Confederacy.  

Emancipation Proclamation 1862

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

Despite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the United States, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy (the Southern secessionist states) that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union (United States) military victory.

As you can see many details of the emancipation were not taught in school and are rarely disclosed in folklore. 

13th Amendment 1865

The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution , ratified just months after the end of the American Civil War, abolished slavery and involuntary servitude—except as a punishment for a crime—in the entire United States. As passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865. 

14th Amendment 1868

The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Arguably one of the most consequential amendments to this day, the amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. The amendment was bitterly contested, particularly by the states of the defeated Confederacy , which were forced to ratify it in order to regain representation in Congress. The amendment, particularly its first section, is one of the most litigated parts of the Constitution. The amendment limits the actions of all state and local officials, and also those acting on behalf of such officials.

Federal Reserve 1913

The 1913 Federal Reserve Act is U.S. legislation that created the current Federal Reserve System. Congress developed the Federal Reserve Act to establish economic stability in the United States by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy.

In November 1910, six men – Nelson Aldrich, A. Piatt Andrew, Henry Davison, Arthur Shelton, Frank Vanderlip and Paul Warburg – met at the Jekyll Island Club, off the coast of Georgia, to write a plan to reform the nation’s banking system. The meeting and its purpose were closely guarded secrets, and participants did not admit that the meeting occurred until the 1930s. But the plan written on Jekyll Island laid a foundation for what would eventually be the Federal Reserve System.

Michigan

Whether a high school graduate, GED certified, or drop out; the American Educational System does not have a curriculum in place to accurately tell the truth of it's own history.  Why?  Because all of American History is stolen from another culture due to massive levels of imperialism and colonialism in the land.   How can a bastard nation teach it's people about there history when the inception of the nation is greed and the conception lies.  The American Education is heavely based on Nazi Germany in indoctrination methods with control of curriculum and repression of free thought.  We have all been affected by this educational system to the point we don't know who we truly are, what we truly know or don't know.

Mathematics and Science are ansolute truth.  When you apply these two in conjunction with time; past and future, you manifest history and prediction.  The best place to apply math and science is to yourself.  The best way to do that is through the science and study of Geneology.  

Genealogy

a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor.

• the study and tracing of lines of descent or development.
• a plant's or animal's line of evolutionary development from earlier forms.

In 1993 I was a junior in high school, which is the year my Uncle started his journey in the field of Genealogy.  At the age of 16 I understood family trees and family reunions.  I understood that my family did niether.  A product of divorced parents who both re-married with children; family reunions and family trees would have been complicated to say the least.  My Uncle is paternal , and on that side we are not a large family so to speak; as far as I knew at the time.  I was always interested in my uncles movement from college, to music, to travel; Unc was a role model unbeknownst to me.  His passion for Genealogy was infectious and I started paying more attention.  During his research he unveiled a history that went past grandparents.

Branching Out was birthed from my uncle's mind and taken to Houston, Texas.  From there my Uncle continued and manifested more history of our family and others family.  I went on to the college and then the U.S. Air Force and on with the status quo of life with Genealogy in the back of my mind that was just a cool interest from my cool uncle.

It wasn't until I found my self in prison that I seemed to really care about Genealogy.  Solitude is usually thd catalyst for redemption to start.  Things that used to matter didn't anymore. Genealogy was now moved up the priority list.  I wanted to know answers to different questions in life.  I was 25 asking myself; Who am I? How did I get here? Why am I here? What is my purpose? What are my gifts? Why have I made these choices?   With thoughts of my Unce I reached out for literature on his findings, and he was more wikling to oblige, and the mail came. 

While incarcerated, I cintinued to grow in my quest to Know Thyself.  Passionately I would speak to relatives about Genealogy.  My passion extended further than knowing my family tree from an American view. 

According to my Uncles studies over the years he uncovered that so called African Americans could only trace geneology back to 1865 as far as documented citizens on the U.S. Census.  Blacks had no Birth Certificates or Death Certificates to be registered in County Clerks Offices prior to the Civil War.  The only form of documentation were Slave Manifests; which is a Warehouse Inventory Sheet.  A list of products, or asset.  Similar to a Deed for a property. This is where slavery and banking were connected thus making slavery a national economic issue.  Slavery comprimised a free labor force and all upward profit margins from beind capital producing assets.  One would have to know the Slave Owners family name and find that relatives Chattel Papers.  Most so- called White families are not eager to admit that their family owned yours, nor do they care to help you on your journey to know yourself.

Upon learning about mitochondrial DNA and the more advancements in Genealogy, I became ever aware of ability to jump past this hurdle of 1865 and Slavery.  As a youth I questioned "citizenship" and " nationality". 

America confused me ever since the Pledge Of Allegiance in school.  I always felt like a robot saying it in unison with the other children.  It references being a Relublic.  In common reference and politically it's a Democracy, and economically it's Capitalism.  So with this breakdown of America how could I be American.  The land is a Republic,, the government is Democratic, and the economy is Capitalist.  How does one find out who they are in this confusion. 

Africa is a continent not a country.  There are different nationalities within the continent.  There are 54 countries in Africa, this 54 different flags, and nationalities. 

Africa is a continent with a very high linguistic diversity, there are an estimated 1500-2000 African languages. I have never been to none of the 54 countries nor do I speak one of 1500 plus languages.  I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, sitting in a Virginia prison, speaking English in America. 

How can America classify me as African- American.  That is not a nationality.  What is race compared to Nationhood.  America made up race.  Black is not a nationality.  Negro or colored are not nationality.  

Once I concluded my thoughts on the next step I wrote letters to my mother and uncle to get DNA tests and lets take it serious about knowing our true history.  I'm proud to say that in my family that call was answered.  WE KNOW WHO WE ARE. THANK OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. 

Cameroon 🇨🇲

Cameroon, on the Gulf of Guinea, is a Central African country of varied terrain and wildlife. Its inland capital, Yaoundé, and its biggest city, the seaport Douala, are transit points to ecotourism sites as well as beach resorts like Kribi – near the Chutes de la Lobé waterfalls, which plunge directly into the sea – and Limbe, where the Limbe Wildlife Centre houses rescued primates.

Early history. The earliest inhabitants of Cameroon were probably the Baka (Pygmies). They still inhabit the forests of the south and east provinces. ... The Aro Confederacy of Nigeria had a presence in western (later called British) Cameroon due to trade and migration in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Congo 🇨🇩

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as DR Congo, the DRC, DROC, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa. It was formerly called Zaire. It is, by area, the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa, the second-largest in all of Africa, and the 11th-largest in the world.

History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The region that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo was first settled about 80,000 years ago. ... Reports of widespread murder and torture in the rubber plantations led the Belgian government to seize the Congo from Leopold II and establish the Belgian Congo.

Nigeria 🇳🇬

Nigeria, an African country on the Gulf of Guinea, has many natural landmarks and wildlife reserves. Protected areas such as Cross River National Park and Yankari National Park have waterfalls, dense rainforest, savanna and rare primate habitats. One of the most recognizable sites is Zuma Rock, a 725m-tall monolith outside the capital of Abuja that’s pictured on the national currency.

The history of Nigeria can be traced to prehistoric settlers (Nigerians) living in the area as early as 1100 BC. Numerous ancient African civilizations settled in the region that is today Nigeria, such as the Kingdom of Nri, the Benin Empire, and the Oyo Empire. ... Nigeria became a British protectorate in 1901.

Ghana 🇬🇭

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.

The Republic of Ghana is named after the medieval West African Ghana Empire. The empire became known in Europe and Arabia as the Ghana Empire after the title of its emperor, the Ghana. The Empire appears to have broken up following the 1076 conquest by the Almoravid General Abu-Bakr Ibn-Umar. A reduced kingdom continued to exist after Almoravid rule ended, and the kingdom was later incorporated into subsequent Sahelian empires, such as the Mali Empire several centuries later. Geographically, the ancient Ghana Empire was approximately 500 miles (800 km) north and west of the modern state of Ghana, and controlled territories in the area of the Senegal River and east towards the Niger rivers, in modern Senegal, Mauritania and Mali.

The Bantu-speaking peoples migrated from Western Africa-- near modern-day Nigeria-- southward and eastward, spreading out across all of the southern half of the African continent. 

This migration started at about 1000 B.C.E., and ended at about 1700 A.D. although that date is still in dispute. 

Bantu are the speakers of Bantu languages, comprising several hundred indigenous ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes to Southern Africa.

The Bantu helped develop the land to which they moved by introduce new foods, such as millet and sorghum. It has also been speculated that they introduced iron smelting and iron tools. They have grown to about 60 million linguistically related people.

Defining the term 'Bantu' Abantu (or 'Bantu' as it was used by colonists) is the Zulu word for people. It is the plural of the word 'umuntu', meaning 'person', and is based on the stem '--ntu' plus the plural prefix 'aba'. This original meaning changed through the history of South Africa.

Many Bantu who settled in areas where there was a strong Arab presence are Muslim. Others, living in parts of Africa influenced by missionary efforts are Christian. Still others follow traditional animist religions. Animists believe that spirits are found in natural objects and surroundings.

The staple food for the Bantu is maize, locally known as soor, which is a thick porridge. Other foods are beans, sorghum, vegetables, and fruits. Through outside influences, additional foods such as rice and spaghetti have become common.

Bantus are not a race, they are a group of related ethnic groups in Africa. They are probably the most widespread group in Africa. Africans usually identify with their ethnicity, religion, and region or nation.

Some may ask; why care about Genealogy?  What does it do for me?  That answer is for everyone to manifest themselves, if at all.  My answer is a sense of Self.  To go on a journey and find out your true ancestry and true history gives you a pride and love for your self that only comes from your Heavenly Father.  The confidence to know and stand firm that no government or society classification can define or categorize your existence.  We are all one of a kind connected to ond Source.  Knowing your ancestry and from whence you came will transcend into all areas of life; family, marriage, relationships, employment, business, self-esteem, ambition, travel, focus, discipline, empathy etc.  The study of Genealogy is also thereputic to the trauma/PSTD that runs through the veins of all so-called African- Americans.  Energy is neither created nor destroyed, only transferred. Genealogy is a healer of generations of that tramatic energy transfer. You don't know where you are going, until you know where you have been.  Upon learning that I my bloodline and DNA go back to four African nations was refreshing, exciting, and honoring.  I am a descendent of some of the strongest souls to be stolen from the African continent.  To know that I have a homeland and nationality.  Actually four plus with European as well.  Is there a place for us being so diveresed and " mixed breeds"?  Is that why we are just slapped with labels like " negro" " "colored" , "black" and " african american" ?  We are a Lost Tribe with no land and no flag.  We were forced to be America's children and accept English language and culture until we find our way back home.  We are all living proof of history.

Bantus are not a race, they are a group of related ethnic groups in

 Africa. They are probably the most widespread group in Africa. Africans usually identify with their ethnicity, religion,

region or nation.

Ranaan bar Iami  

bar Malka Adi Karen

Ari Kohan

Amen Iami