But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.
Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.
One of the biggest things that I took from playing Kunta Kinte was where his strength came from in knowing where he was from.
Your tribe is out there, you just have to find them.
I am a member of the Muskogee people. I'm a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I'm looking for answers of some sort or the other.
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.
I'm connected with my indigenous roots.
Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.
