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[[File:Petroglyphs in Victorville.JPG|thumb|Rock art produced by the Wod͡ʒagat people, a critically endangered Urom tribe]] | [[File:Petroglyphs in Victorville.JPG|thumb|Rock art produced by the Wod͡ʒagat people, a critically endangered Urom tribe]] | ||
'''''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 {{wp|tribe|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 | '''''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 {{wp|tribe|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 15 million people. | ||
Urom peoples, having many cultural characteristics in common with {{wp|indigenous peoples}} on other continents and beset with similar socio-economic and political challenges, are often included in [[Occidental]] discourse on {{wp|Indigenous rights|indigenous issues}}. In the [[Coscivian civilisation|Coscivian world]], however, ''Uromkor'' is understood as a function of socio-cultural {{wp|Other (philosophy)|otherness}} rather than {{wp|Autochthon (ancient Greece)|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. | Urom peoples, having many cultural characteristics in common with {{wp|indigenous peoples}} on other continents and beset with similar socio-economic and political challenges, are often included in [[Occidental]] discourse on {{wp|Indigenous rights|indigenous issues}}. In the [[Coscivian civilisation|Coscivian world]], however, ''Uromkor'' is understood as a function of socio-cultural {{wp|Other (philosophy)|otherness}} rather than {{wp|Autochthon (ancient Greece)|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. | ||
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==Concept== | ==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 {{wp|endemic war|endemic warfare}} between small tribal units, and widespread murderous practices such as {{wp|infanticide}} and {{wp|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 ''[[Colour in Coscivian culture|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 [[Marble_Emperor#Significance|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, | 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 {{wp|endemic war|endemic warfare}} between small tribal units, and widespread murderous practices such as {{wp|infanticide}} and {{wp|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 ''[[Colour in Coscivian culture|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 [[Marble_Emperor#Significance|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, 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 {{wp|Lucy Lawless|Lawless}} tribes who did not. | ||
The discovery of {{wp|Bronze Age|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). Over time, many Subjects of the Land, either on a corporate or individual basis, undertook the Rites and adopted the emerging Coscivian identity. At several junctures, such as the Great Invitation of Emperor Kompūserv and Emperor Ṉspektadek's Naturalisation of the Land, these initiations occurred ''en masse'' and may have been less-than-voluntary. At any rate, the arc of Imperial Coscivian history was long, but it bent toward the convergence of Subjects of the Land with the Emperor's Subjects, and also toward territorial expansion and the closure of the frontiers, such that by [Milestone], few redoubts of ungoverned barbarians persisted, and most remaining Subjects of the Land were tribal peoples living on marginal lands, especially inaccessible mountains, dense forests, and malarial swamps. | The discovery of {{wp|Bronze Age|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). Over time, many Subjects of the Land, either on a corporate or individual basis, undertook the Rites and adopted the emerging Coscivian identity. At several junctures, such as the Great Invitation of Emperor Kompūserv and Emperor Ṉspektadek's Naturalisation of the Land, these initiations occurred ''en masse'' and may have been less-than-voluntary. At any rate, the arc of Imperial Coscivian history was long, but it bent toward the convergence of Subjects of the Land with the Emperor's Subjects, and also toward territorial expansion and the closure of the frontiers, such that by [Milestone], few redoubts of ungoverned barbarians persisted, and most remaining Subjects of the Land were tribal peoples living on marginal lands, especially inaccessible mountains, dense forests, and malarial swamps. | ||
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*'''Biznad͡ʒ''' - Native to [[Korlēdan]] and [[Argévia]]. | *'''Biznad͡ʒ''' - Native to [[Korlēdan]] and [[Argévia]]. | ||
*'''[[Ethnic_groups_in_Kiravia#Hazléta|Hazléta]]''' - Gascanic tribe inhabiting the Hadselet Valley in Sixua Province | |||
*'''Oklʌsterbé''' - Native to [[Lataskia]]; moribund with all 9 remaining Oklʌsterbé past reproductive age. | *'''Oklʌsterbé''' - Native to [[Lataskia]]; moribund with all 9 remaining Oklʌsterbé past reproductive age. | ||
*'''Pungōvak''' - Native to Inokarya and [[Ixikéa-Qihuxia|Qihuxia]], related to the Coscivian Kayakem. | *'''Pungōvak''' - Native to Inokarya and [[Ixikéa-Qihuxia|Qihuxia]], related to the Coscivian Kayakem. | ||
*'''[[Ethnic_groups_in_Kiravia#Qódavans|Qódava]]''' - Largest Urom tribe, with around four million members. | *'''[[Ethnic_groups_in_Kiravia#Qódavans|Qódava]]''' - Largest Urom tribe, with around four million members. | ||
*'''Rifpito''' - Relatives of the Qódava. | *'''Rifpito''' - Relatives of the Qódava. | ||
*'''[[Ethnic_groups_in_Kiravia#Vaguan|Vaguan]]''' - Native to the North Kiravian plain south of the Lake Belt; known for their small {{wp|earth lodge}} dwellings | |||
*'''Varekthari''' - Native to [[Metrea]]. | *'''Varekthari''' - Native to [[Metrea]]. | ||
*'''Wamdue''' - Native to [[Sixua]], once ruled a confederation of chiefdoms and proto-states at parity with neighbouring Coscivian polities. | *'''Wamdue''' - Native to [[Sixua]], once ruled a confederation of chiefdoms and proto-states at parity with neighbouring Coscivian polities. | ||