Autogenesis vs. Ethnogenesis: Why Soulaan Identity Is Not a Process but a Continuation

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/stole shared institutions. In that case, 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.

Ethnogenesis is porous because it measures story, not soil. It treats identity as something that can be constructed through time, politics, or proximity. That’s why European colonists and later immigrant groups could frame themselves as “new Americans” or even “new Natives,” claiming that their unique blend of traditions made them indigenous to this hemisphere. In the mimic tongue, ethnogenesis is the loophole the linguistic doorway that lets occupation disguise itself as belonging. But think about it: does a Chinese person have to defend or explain their existence by saying they had an ethnogenesis in China? No.

Auto-Genesis: The Law of Continuity

Soulaan people are not the product of ethnogenesis; if anything, we are of auto-genesis — self-birth, self-continuation, self-remembrance. Auto-genesis means “originating from within itself.” It describes life or identity that arises from its own inner law rather than being assembled from outside elements. In biological or philosophical terms, it is the principle of spontaneous self-organization. In cultural terms, it is ancestral continuity made flesh.

Soulaan identity did not form after contact, enslavement, or colonization. It persisted beneath them. We are not an ethnicity that emerged through trauma; we are a nation that re-emerged from memory. Every generation of Soulaan births itself from the same land, the same rivers, the same ancestral charge. That is auto-genesis the living proof that the soul and the soil are one continuum.

The Flatness of Ethnogenesis and the Depth of Auto-Genesis

Ethnogenesis flattens. It replaces origin with narrative, making “Indigenous” a matter of consensus rather than continuity. Under that framework, a group can become native through time or cultural synthesis a dangerous convenience for those seeking moral cover for displacement.

Auto-genesis deepens. It insists that origin is not something to earn but something to remember. It is rooted in Sovereign Law, the principle that what is born of this soil cannot be alien to it. Soulaan people are not descendants of a created ethnicity; we are the returning pulse of the land itself. Where ethnogenesis says, “We became a people here,” auto-genesis says, “We are the people of here.”

Academic Neutrality as a Colonial Tool

The academy often treats ethnogenesis as a sterile process the blending of Africans, Europeans, and Indigenous peoples to form “new groups.” But this language obscures power. It frames forced mixture, displacement, and cultural theft as creative collaboration. It implies that the Soulaan story began after slavery, as if we had no preexisting civilization, no continuity, no law before captivity.

That framing is not analysis; it is erasure in scholarly costume. Auto-genesis corrects this by restoring time depth. It reminds us that our memory did not begin in chains. It reclaims our right to define existence through continuity, not collapse.

In Soulaan Terms

In Soulaan understanding:

• Ethnogenesis = mimic word for identity construction through contact

• Auto-genesis = ancestral re-emergence through land memory

Ethnogenesis depends on recognition.

Auto-genesis depends on resonance.

Ethnogenesis needs witnesses and paperwork. Auto-genesis only needs breath, bone, and soil. Ethnogenesis is the academic fiction of becoming; auto-genesis is the ancestral law of being. Soulaan identity is not a recent invention or hybrid formation it is a self-renewing current, a law older than the borders that tried to bury it. To call ourselves auto-genetic is to say: we are not made; we remain.