In academic language, ethnogenesis means “the formation of a new ethnic group.” At first glance, it sounds neutral a description of how people forge identity through shared experience. But beneath that neutrality lies a dangerous flattening. The term allows anyone, from settler to immigrant, to claim “Indigeneity” by arguing that their culture was formed within a certain land, regardless of whether that land birthed them.
Ethnogenesis describes a new group coming into being because of contact, blending, or collective re-organization. The English formed when several related tribes mingled and adopted shared institutions. Modern Israelis formed through migration, shared religion, and the building of a state. In both cases, there’s a break between older populations and a new identity that forms later.
Soulaan continuity shows no such break.
The people now called Soulaan (autochthonous Black Americans) trace directly to the original inhabitants of Amorocco/North America—communities whose bloodlines, languages, and land relationships continued beneath the overlay of enslavement and colonial record-keeping. The outside world renamed them, but they did not dissolve and recombine into a “new” ethnicity; they endured as one current under forced conditions.