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'''Kiravian | '''Kiravian Uroms''' 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== | ||
The definition of ' | The definition of 'Urom' that has guided Kiravian aboriginal policy since the [[Partholón Térunbuir|Térunbuir administration]] has been: | ||
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* economic and developmental disadvantages compared to neighbouring communities not so distinguished. | * economic and developmental disadvantages compared to neighbouring communities not so distinguished. | ||
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|source= ''Order in regard to the Recognition of | |source= ''Order in regard to the Recognition of Urom Peoples'' | ||
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This definition encompasses a diverse collection of people groups, many of them small-numbered, across different language families, traditional lifestyles, phenotypes, religious traditions, and degrees and manners of differentiation from Coscivian and Coscivian-adjacent society. Although components of the standard definition have been criticised on various grounds, it is nonetheless the most widely used definition by government and civil society alike. According to Rifpito activist and scholar Yefes Ayefsipti, the classification of groups as | This definition encompasses a diverse collection of people groups, many of them small-numbered, across different language families, traditional lifestyles, phenotypes, religious traditions, and degrees and manners of differentiation from Coscivian and Coscivian-adjacent society. Although components of the standard definition have been criticised on various grounds, it is nonetheless the most widely used definition by government and civil society alike. According to Rifpito activist and scholar Yefes Ayefsipti, the classification of groups as Urom or non-Urom can seem arbitrary and artificial to urban Coscivians and to Western observers, but in regions with established Urom populations the {{wp|Other (philosophy)|otherness}} of Uromity is an inescapable and deeply felt social reality. A point of agreement between the government and Urom leaders is that Uromity is fundamentally an attribute of peoples and tribes, and that individuals are only Urom by virtue of belonging to such a people. | ||
In sociological and public policy discourse, usage of the term ' | In sociological and public policy discourse, usage of the term 'Urom' normally excludes the Scheduled Minorities (who maintain a separate identity from Coscivians but have long histories of statehood and civil integration), as well as groups such as the Kiorgians and Indokwéans who are of heavily Palæo-Kiravian descent but identify as Coscivians. However, these groups may considered Uroms in anthropological and historical contexts. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===Speculative Origins=== | ===Speculative Origins=== | ||
<!--** 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 | <!--** 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 Uroms. | ||
Kiravian historians and anthropologists categorise the time between the immigration of the last | Kiravian historians and anthropologists categorise the time between the immigration of the last Urom "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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==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||
Kiravite | Kiravite Uroms are a polyphyletic group, divided among five apparently unrelated language families (and three language isolates) and exhibiting considerable variation in appearance. Their traditional religious practices can differ greatly between tribes, encompassing shamanism, totemism, vitalism, monotheism, universism, animism, spiritism, and combinations thereof. Today, most Uroms practice some form of Christianity or Islam, usually in syncresis with their previous beliefs and traditions. There have also been efforts to formalise and institutionalise wholly native belief systems in order to perpetuate them in modernity. | ||
==Contemporary Social Characteristics== | ==Contemporary Social Characteristics== | ||
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<!--** The social characteristics of contemporary | <!--** The social characteristics of contemporary Uroms divide their population into three “castes” based primarily on their ancestors allegiances during the Continental War and the political status they came to hold in the Coscivian-dominated order afterward (see Political Status below). | ||
'''Pro-Kiravian Tribes''', as well as tribes in the Aterandic mountains and eastern coastal regions that had been assimilated into or displaced by Coscivian civilisation early in history, also referred to as | '''Pro-Kiravian Tribes''', as well as tribes in the Aterandic mountains and eastern coastal regions that had been assimilated into or displaced by Coscivian civilisation early in history, also referred to as | ||
''Treaty Tribes'', were rewarded with high political status after the war. They immediately received (or already held) full Kiravian citizenship, and considerable political autonomy under self-governing Tribal Authorities and Autonomous Countyships. Whether they integrated into Cosco-Kiravian society as new tuaþaya or opted for greater cultural autonomy, these tribes were well-positioned to retain many aspects of their cultural heritage while benefitting fully from Kiravian economic advancement. Today, their economic, housing, health, and education indicators are generally on-par with those of Coscivians living nearby, and even exceed them in select localities. | ''Treaty Tribes'', were rewarded with high political status after the war. They immediately received (or already held) full Kiravian citizenship, and considerable political autonomy under self-governing Tribal Authorities and Autonomous Countyships. Whether they integrated into Cosco-Kiravian society as new tuaþaya or opted for greater cultural autonomy, these tribes were well-positioned to retain many aspects of their cultural heritage while benefitting fully from Kiravian economic advancement. Today, their economic, housing, health, and education indicators are generally on-par with those of Coscivians living nearby, and even exceed them in select localities. | ||
'''Neutral Tribes''' that avoided taking sides in the Continental War, as well as those living in more remote mountain and inland regions of the West who were uninvolved in the conflict, constitute the middle caste of | '''Neutral Tribes''' that avoided taking sides in the Continental War, as well as those living in more remote mountain and inland regions of the West who were uninvolved in the conflict, constitute the middle caste of Uroms. After the war, most were gradually confined to less-autonomous reservations or forced to adopt private landholding. Marginalised and generally ignored by Cosco-Kiravian society, they preserved much of their culture through relative isolation, but were also left behind as the Kiravian economy developed. Today, they are generally poorer than neighbouring Coscivians, have lower (oftentimes wholly premodern) standards of living. The Neutral Tribes of the northern West Coast and Northwest Isles are an exception, being more or less on par with Coscivians living in those areas in terms of economic and social status. | ||
'''Defeated Tribes''' were the founding tribes of Drail and their allies. After the war, they were evicted from their lands to make room for Coscivian settlement, denied citizenship, and lived as captured enemy aliens for generations, often being subjected to forced labour and migration. They were only granted Kiravian nationality in 21073 and limited citizenship in 21126. Due to their landlessness, they are highly urbanised, making up a plurality of | '''Defeated Tribes''' were the founding tribes of Drail and their allies. After the war, they were evicted from their lands to make room for Coscivian settlement, denied citizenship, and lived as captured enemy aliens for generations, often being subjected to forced labour and migration. They were only granted Kiravian nationality in 21073 and limited citizenship in 21126. Due to their landlessness, they are highly urbanised, making up a plurality of Uroms living in Metropolitan Core regions according to the KF Census. They suffer from generational poverty, weak family structures, social breakdown, high crime rates, drug abuse, and abysmal educational attainment rates. ** --> | ||
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===Population=== | ===Population=== | ||
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 | 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 Uroms live in West Kirav. | ||
==Political Status== | ==Political Status== | ||
Today, all | Today, all Urom 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 Uroms 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 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. | 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 | <strike>The larger Treaty Tribes govern Tribal Authorities, defined by the Urom 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. | ||
Smaller Treaty Tribes have Autonomous Countyships – Areas within a state that can operate internally as if they were their own state, but are not subjects of federal law. | Smaller Treaty Tribes have Autonomous Countyships – Areas within a state that can operate internally as if they were their own state, but are not subjects of federal law. | ||
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==Settlements== | ==Settlements== | ||
[[Drail]] (Kiravic: ''Drayin'') is by far the largest Kiravian settlement with an | [[Drail]] (Kiravic: ''Drayin'') is by far the largest Kiravian settlement with an Urom-majority population (78% of its 84,000 people in 21205), followed by [[Saɣuarśa]], the capital of the Xéoxƿém Tribal Authority in [[Transateranda]] (84% of its 46,000 people). | ||
Major Kiravian cities with large | Major Kiravian cities with large Urom populations include: | ||
*[[Escarda]] (14.7%) | *[[Escarda]] (14.7%) | ||
*[[Kaþedra]] (20.6%) | *[[Kaþedra]] (20.6%) | ||
Revision as of 15:10, 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.