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'''Kiravian Aboriginals''' or ''' | '''Kiravian Aboriginals''' or '''Uroms''' are a polyphyletic group of peoples who are collectively considered the indigenous inhabitants of the island continent of [[Great Kirav]] and its surrounding islands, present there before the arrival of the proto-[[Coscivian civilisation|Coscivians]]. | ||
==Definition== | ==Definition== | ||
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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Speculative Origins=== | ===Speculative Origins=== | ||
<!--** The ultimate origin of the | <!--** The ultimate origin of the Uroms remains a mystery. Genetic surveys have identified at least three distinct "founder populations" or "waves of settlement", depending on the model, but have been unable to reliably date the arrival of these groups or definitively match them with related populations elsewhere in the world. Archæological evidence, primarily the carbon-dating of biotic material embedded in primitive stone tools, seems to point to an arrival date for the earliest pioneers between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago, though it remains unclear whether the makers of these tools were ''Homo sapiens'' or other hominids, and even less clear whether their genetic line continues in modern Aboriginals. | ||
Kiravian historians and anthropologists categorise the time between the immigration of the last Aboriginal "founder population" and the arrival of Arctic and Levantine peoples on Kiravian shores as the Isolation Period. The boundaries of this period are poorly defined, with the beginning date being purely theoretical and the end date rather vague due to lack of hard data. Nonetheless, the period of isolation has an upper bound of XXXX AD, as evidenced by findings of Celtic artifacts on the [[Mariava]] coast.** --> | Kiravian historians and anthropologists categorise the time between the immigration of the last Aboriginal "founder population" and the arrival of Arctic and Levantine peoples on Kiravian shores as the Isolation Period. The boundaries of this period are poorly defined, with the beginning date being purely theoretical and the end date rather vague due to lack of hard data. Nonetheless, the period of isolation has an upper bound of XXXX AD, as evidenced by findings of Celtic artifacts on the [[Mariava]] coast.** --> | ||
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===Population=== | ===Population=== | ||
As of the latest census, | As of the latest census, Uroms numbered just over 34.4 million people, accounting for about three percent of the total population of the Kiravian Federacy. 62% of Aboriginals live in West Kirav. | ||
==Political Status== | ==Political Status== | ||
Today, all Aboriginal Kiravians are citizens of the Kiravian Federacy, with the four Draili tribes being the last to gain citizenship in 21126. Previously, the civil status of Aboriginals varied by the political favour in which their tribe was held, usually entailing lower grades of status such as metics, mere nationals, or [[subjects of the land]]. | Today, all Aboriginal Kiravians are citizens of the Kiravian Federacy, with the four Draili tribes being the last to gain citizenship in 21126. Previously, the civil status of Aboriginals varied by the political favour in which their tribe was held, usually entailing lower grades of status such as metics, mere nationals, or [[subjects of the land]]. | ||
Overall, 48% of | Overall, 48% of Uroms live outside of tribal jurisdiction and are subject to the same laws as other Kiravian citizens. The 52% that live on tribal lands enjoy special autonomy and exemptions from state and federal laws that vary by the type of tribal jurisdiction they inhabit. | ||
<strike>The larger Treaty Tribes govern Tribal Authorities, defined by the Aboriginal Affairs Code as “domestic, dependent, but autocephalous subjects of federal law”. Though they are not states themselves and have no independent input into federal politics as states, territories, and other federal subjects do, Tribal Authorities have the same standing as states under federal law. They exercise most administrative powers of states – levying taxes, operating police forces, issuing licences, and passing laws – within areas under their jurisdiction, which include both one or more autonomous counties and larger non-autonomous areas of states where the Tribal Authority’s jurisdiction is extraterritorial. | <strike>The larger Treaty Tribes govern Tribal Authorities, defined by the Aboriginal Affairs Code as “domestic, dependent, but autocephalous subjects of federal law”. Though they are not states themselves and have no independent input into federal politics as states, territories, and other federal subjects do, Tribal Authorities have the same standing as states under federal law. They exercise most administrative powers of states – levying taxes, operating police forces, issuing licences, and passing laws – within areas under their jurisdiction, which include both one or more autonomous counties and larger non-autonomous areas of states where the Tribal Authority’s jurisdiction is extraterritorial. | ||
Revision as of 14:04, 1 November 2022
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Urom are a heterogeneous category of non-Coscivian peoples native to Great Kirav, distinguished from the other non-Coscivian minorities of the island continent (termed “National Minorities”) by their tribal mode of social organisation, historical umpéa status under Imperial law, lack of integration into mainstream Kiravian society, and special developmental concerns. Collectively, they represent 2.1% of the Kiravian population, around 24 million people.
Urom peoples, having many cultural characteristics in common with indigenous peoples on other continents and beset with similar socio-economic and political challenges, are often included in Occidental discourse on indigenous issues. In the Coscivian world, however, Uromkor is understood as a function of socio-cultural otherness rather than autochthony and colonial displacement, and Urom peoples are generally not regarded as being any more “indigenous” to Great Kirav than the National Minorities or Coscivian peoples, though claims to the contrary have been advanced by Urom activists.
Concept
The concept of Urom derives from the self-understanding of Coscivian civilisation and its origins. According to tradition, primitive agricultural Kirav was a violent and brutish environment characterised by near-constant endemic warfare between small tribal units, and widespread murderous practices such as infanticide and uxoricide within tribes due to both ritual demand and resource scarcity. Lifespans were extremely short, with the prelude to the Great Law Chant reminding Coscivians that "mere beards - not white but rich with ūmar were the mark of the elder; fortunate and few were those who survived to full manhood, for the earth was bathed in the young blood of hairless youth." It was only with the rise of the Emperors, through their imposition of the Four Laws and patronage of the Four Rites, that communities were able to know peace and order. During this nascent stage of Coscivian civilisation, sometimes known as the "lawful commonwealth", the "Empire" was a tribal confederacy rather than a proper state, without an administration or defined territory. The Four Laws and Four Rites spread by voluntary diffusion more so than conquest, and from this emerged a binary identity of Lawful tribes who accepted the Emperor's authority versus Lawless tribes who did not.
The discovery of ærose metallurgy and other technologies that enabled the consolidation of stable political control over wider areas and facilitated the evolution of the Empire into a territorial entity complicated this binary, as the Emperor's authority was no longer limited to those communities that had accepted the Law and Rites voluntarily, and now extended to communities brought under his rule by conquest, bound by the Law but (initially) not admitted to the Rites. This engendered a trifurcate distinction between Subjects of the Emperor (ritually initiated), Subjects of the Land (lawful but uninitiated), and barbarians (lawless).
To Be Continued.
List of Urom peoples
- Biznad͡ʒ - Native to Korlēdan and Argévia.
- Oklʌsterbé - Native to Lataskia; moribund with all 9 remaining Oklʌsterbé past reproductive age.
- Pungōvak - Native to Inokarya and Qihuxia, related to the Coscivian Kayakem.
- Qódava - Largest Urom tribe, with around four million members.
- Rifpito - Relatives of the Qódava.
- Varekthari - Native to Metrea.
- Wawa - Native to Váuadra.
- Wisaya - Native to Sixua and known for their exotic marital norms.