In Search of My Tribe

I was orphaned from my nation—separated by the deliberate erasure that colonization inflicts on Indigenous peoples. For years, I lived in the home my colonizers offered, until I could no longer accept their definition of belonging. My search began as a personal quest: to find where I truly came from. It took me from the Americas to Ethiopia, Uganda, and Jamaica, following threads of identity that had been buried but never broken. In finding my tribe, I found proof—proof of continuity, of survival, of an Aboriginal American Indian identity that persists. And I found the evidence and will to do what colonization said was impossible: to recreate the Muskogee (Creek) nation that was stolen from us.

This book is that evidence. This journey is that reclamation.I wanted a home so bad that I took the home offered to me by my colonizers. Until I decided to search for my own. In the process of searching for my own, I moved from my homeland in the Americas to Ethiopia, Uganda and Jamaica. In Search of My tribe and why I wrote the book. I felt like I had been severed from my mothers womb and given a way as a orphanage and my search not only led me home back into the arms of my mother. It also led me to recreate the Nation that was stolen from my ancestors in the Americas.

After years of people asking me to write my story, I finally did it and now it is available for me to share with the world.

Thank you World Pulse Community for being with me on the later part of my journey since 2009 when you chose me as one of the first journalist. You gave me the confidence to write again. I am so honored to still be a part of this journey.

Thank you Ethiopia and Uganda, for hosting me when I was living and working in your country. You gave me opportunities to express my talents in ways my own countrymen denied me. Because of you, I developed the skills and courage to find my own Nation and my true ancestors!