Reconstruction: Tenacity of a Nation

by Don Allison

The Soul of a Nation opened the gateway for the Spirit of a Nation to reconstruct the old and new Indian Nations of the Americas, as well as the United States of America. Now it was time for the Tenacity of a Nation to showcase it’s quality or fact of continuing to exist,’ and it’s persistence in maintaining that existence.Indian Nations of the Americas hoped the newly formed United States of America would be just as eager to rebuild their own lands, as they were to rebuild their new lands. There were seven nations, renamed by agreement of their council members in the form of individual nations.All territories within the Nations were subdivided into the different tribal cultures known to the regions before the settlers, as well as for those who were new to the territory via migration to the Nations as per the conditions of the Wovoka prophecy and established their new Nations. The next task was the renaming of cities spared from mother nature’s assault and that was easy, for tribal cultures mainly reclaimed their native lands and those who migrated into the Nations, staked their own land claims and officially filed the claims with their Nations’ governments, of which upon vote of approval granted the claims.Cities were named after the old or new tribes that settled and claimed the cities. In these newly created Nations, their capitol cities were named after the tribes occupying them, before the settlers and they also served as the center of establishing their governments, of which was patterned after states and cities in America, but deeply rooted in Indian cultures.The tenacity of the Nations was born out of Indians’ history, which was accurately presented before and after the settlers showed up, coupled with historical documents from the American government.The one thing that stood out clearly was a fact, the settlers had always showed contempt for the Indians, from the offset.Before the settlers showed up, there were many tribes that came with different cultures, origins and languages, but were for the most part civil towards each other. They were not the savages the settlers proclaimed them to be from the offset.Although Indian history for the most part was transmitted via oral stories of various tribes, the stories matched accurately with one another, and later on, as stated earlier, American government official records sustained the accounts of the stories.That reality was the focus of the tenacity of the Nations, citing, government official records were never used in the educational aspect of the country’s history lessons, so as to ease the minds of Indians who were starting to feel sorry for the Americans who lost everything and forced out of what was considered to be, their native lands.On a daily basic, as the cleanup and restoration of their old or new lands progressed, Indians were reminded, the biggest misconception of the settler’s initial opinion of Indians was their lack of religion, but long before the settler showed up, Indians religious practices varied from tribe to tribe. For the most part, they practiced prayers, rituals and offerings through tribal ceremonies, mostly closely related to the land and the environment, that consisted of what was considered to be divine powers associated with the universe and life beginning at birth, through puberty and death, mostly through spiritual beings, prophecies and contact with the spirit world. All performed mostly through ceremonies that renewed their tribal lands and communities.This appeared to be uncivilized to the settlers and they set a course to introduce the tribes to their version of Christianity, of which later on, Indians didn’t believe in, especially after the many atrocities associated with what their God allowed them to do to others not like them. The Tenacity of a Nation was by design a recreation of that sentiment, but in reverse.

111 pages, Paperback

Published July 18, 2020