Soulaan, As Defined By Its Creators
Soulaan: An Ethnic Designation Formed in Place
The ethnonym Soulaan or Soulaani, coined by its creators T-Roy, Maroc, and Dwayne Coleman, names a distinct people whose identity emerged within North America through long-term historical presence, cultural development, and social continuity.
Soulaan, originally Soul American, is not presented as a simple label or a claim of external origin. It is an ethnic designation grounded in how peoples are understood to form: through shared historical conditions, adaptive cultural practices, and intergenerational continuity within a specific place. In this sense, Soulaan describes a people whose collective identity took shape on American soil, rather than being fully inherited as a pre-existing ethnos from elsewhere.
Historical Layers of Formation
Soulaan identity reflects the convergence of multiple historical formations that developed within North America:
Freedmen, as a social and political class that emerged following emancipation, formed new institutions, settlements, kinship networks, and cultural norms under uniquely American conditions. Their presence represents continuity, adaptation, and people-building within the post-enslavement landscape of the United States.
The Mound Builders, understood here not as a singular tribe but as a category of complex, pre-colonial societies across the Mississippi Valley and Eastern Woodlands, represent early evidence of large-scale settlement, engineering, and ceremonial life on the continent. Their inclusion reflects acknowledgment of deep, layered human development within North America rather than a claim of direct tribal inheritance.
A’Morroco / A’Marocco function as historical and linguistic frameworks used to reference early conceptions and namings of the landmass now called North America. Within Soulaan thought, these terms are employed interpretively to signal long-standing human presence and alternative historical mappings of place, rather than as modern geopolitical assertions.
See our history and heritage doesn't start at slavery, it starts with sovereignty. Together, these layers reflect continuity of presence and formation, not a single origin story.
Autochthonous and Indigeneity: Concepts of Formation
The concept of Autochthonous refers to a people formed in the place where they are found. It is an epistemic description used in anthropology and history to identify populations whose identity emerges locally through sustained presence, adaptation, and social continuity.
Indigeneity, in this framework, refers to the condition of originating naturally within a particular place through long-term cultural coherence and historical development. It is not a legal status, tribal enrollment, or competitive claim, but a descriptive lens for understanding how peoples become rooted over time.
Applied here, these concepts describe a people whose identity developed within North America through observable historical processes rather than through later migration as a fully formed group.
You wanna know what Soulaan means plain and simple? Not an immigrant. Soulaan is delineation.
Soulaan is:
- A sovereign ethnonym, not a regional label
- Not a tribe, but a field-based people carrying ancestral grid roles across Turtle Island
- Inclusive of:
- Mississippi River mound builders
- Pre-Columbian Black (Indian) populations
- Maroons, Freedmen, Copper Colored, FBA etc.
Soulaan as Knowledge, Not Assertion
Soulaan is understood through: long-term social continuity shared cultural patterns and institutions evolving systems of classification and self-identification collective memory and intergenerational persistence
These criteria align with established methods used in anthropology, sociology, and historical analysis to identify the emergence of distinct peoples.
Soulaan does not rely on individual genealogy, DNA testing, or external validation. It is grounded in formation, continuity, and place-based development, making it an epistemic category rather than a biological, legal, or ideological claim. Slavery was condition that happened to our family not our origin.
On Language and Meaning
The word Soulaan carries symbolic meaning rooted in cultural expression and continuity. The inclusion of the double “a” signifies Autochthonous American formation, emphasizing emergence within place rather than origin elsewhere. This linguistic structure reflects the conceptual framework of the term itself.
What Soulaan Is and Is Not
Soulaan is:
• an ethnic designation
• a description of collective formation
• grounded in history, culture, and continuity
Soulaan is not:
a nationality
a tribal enrollment claim
a blanket term for all Black people
a designation based on individual ancestry tests
Immigrants
Soulaan names a people whose identity developed within North America through layered historical formations, cultural creation, and social persistence. It provides a framework for understanding peoplehood as something formed through place, time, and lived continuity, rather than defined solely by distant origin narratives or external labels.
“Soulaan grace is not endless.Our forgiveness was never meant for those who mock the dead while dancing in their clothes. We are not a sanctuary for the ungrateful.”
Autochthonous A’Morroco: Soul-Based Formation and Deep Presence
The term Autochthonous, meaning native to the soil and formed in the place where found, is used here as an epistemic concept rather than a legal or tribal classification. It describes populations whose collective identity emerges through long-term presence, cultural continuity, and historical development within a particular land.
Within Soulaan thought, A’Morroco / Amarukka functions as a historical and interpretive framework referencing early conceptions and mappings of the North American landmass. These terms are not presented as modern geopolitical claims, but as linguistic and historical signals of deep human presence and layered settlement over time.
This framework emphasizes us as us forged in this land and native to this soil, rather than just lineage comparison or migration-based distinction. It situates Soulaan identity within a continuum of North American social development that includes pre-colonial societies, complex settlement patterns such as those associated with the Mound Builder cultures, and later historical formations that arose under uniquely American conditions.
The use of Autochthonous to A’Morroco highlights continuity of presence, adaptation, and peoplehood formation on the continent, without reliance on individual ancestry, bloodlines, or exclusionary definitions.
Here’s the video that started it all:
https://youtu.be/UkPdPidilnM?si=C7UD5Yb-sF57Kl6E
Soulaan as U.S. (United & Self Determinate)
Soulaan is an ethnic designation, not a nationality. It names a people shaped through long-term formation on North American soil through shared history, cultural continuity, and collective development and rather than through citizenship, legal status, or modern nation-state identity.
Soulaan is not a blanket label for all people classified as Black, nor is it a migratory or diasporic category. It refers to a people whose identity took shape here, through centuries of adaptation, institution-building, and cultural creation within the conditions of this land.
Rather than centering distant origin stories, Soulaan emphasizes formations in place recognizing that peoples emerge through lived experience, social organization, and intergenerational continuity where they persist.
It has since grown to be a recognizable staple of social controversy, especially on TikTok. You can find the full interview streaming on all platforms for podcasts, follow Soulaan by Maroc Horus.
On Historical Specificity
Within this framework, historical formations such as the Freedmen are understood not as ancestry markers or qualifying labels, but as moments in an ongoing process of people-building. They reflect periods of reorganization, settlement, and institutional growth that shaped collective life under distinctly American conditions.
These formations demonstrate continuity rather than origin. They show how a population already rooted in place adapted to changing social realities while maintaining coherence across generations.
Slavery as a Condition, Not an Origin. Formation Before, During, and Beyond Enslavement
Soulaan peoplehood is grounded in place-based formation in settlement, labor, cultural production, resistance, and continuity on North American soil.
This formation includes deep layers of human development often described through concepts such as soil builders, early agricultural and settlement practices, and later communal and institutional life. These layers reflect a long relationship with land, work, and social organization that predates, endures through, and extends beyond enslavement.
Though enslavement attempted to interrupt this continuity, it did not erase it. The people persisted from adapting, reorganizing, and carrying forward identity through kinship, spiritual systems, language, cultural expression, and collective memory.
Enslavement is understood as a historical condition imposed upon a people, not the source of their existence.
Slavery did not create the people. It acted upon a population whose presence, formation, and connection to North American soil were already established. It functioned as a system of extraction, coercion, and social compression disrupting continuity, distorting institutions, and attempting to sever identity but it did not constitute the beginning of Soulaan peoplehood.
Slavery marks a period of forced reorganization under violent conditions, not the foundation of who the people are.
Soulaan peoplehood is grounded in place-based formation in settlement, labor, cultural production, resistance, and continuity on North American soil.
This formation includes deep layers of human development often described through concepts such as soil builders, early agricultural and settlement practices, and later communal and institutional life. These layers reflect a long relationship with land, work, and social organization that predates, endures through, and extends beyond enslavement.
Though enslavement attempted to interrupt this continuity, it did not erase it. The people persisted adapting, reorganizing, and carrying forward identity through kinship, spiritual systems, language, cultural expression, and collective memory.
Are Bi-ethnics and Biracials Soulaan?
Bi-ethnics and Bi-racials with context could be Soulaan. Its contextual, not by me by harmonic frequency to this soil. The soil doesnt recognize all Bi-ethnics and Bi-racials. Not all match our frequency, and even if you do, Biethnics and Biracials should never be elevated in leadership positions. Why? Because of dual allegiance, and theyre an easy target prop for mimic white supremacy infiltration.
What is the Soulan / Soulaan Flag:
The Soulaan flag or Soulaani Flag (can be purchased here) was designed by Maroc in 2024 with the creative approval of Dwayne (Midnight) & T-Roy. Formally announced August 9, 2024 with much satisfaction of other fellow Black Americans.
The flag distinguishes itself from the Black American Heritage Flag, which was created in 1967 by Melvin Charles and Gleason T. Jackson during the Civil Rights Movement. The Soulaan Flag is a contemporary addition, designed to visually represent the perseverance and contributions of Black Americans today. “Soulani, Soulaani” being a language we are creating not to be confused with Soulaan meaning the people.
• Sword and Wreath Trident prominently featured: The sword is an amalgamation of the Civil War Navy cutlass sword and the Buffalo Soldier saber and sassafras leaves. Carefully embedded within the American/Amorocco stars, they symbolize a journey marked by struggle, resilience, and ongoing pursuit of justice and dignity. Together it forms the three prongs of the trident, the holy trinity. Breath.Emotion.Attention. Mind.Body.Spirit Earthform.Dreamform.Solar Self Past.Present.Future. Earth.Soulaan.Sun.
• Rich indigo overlay: Significantly, the indigo tone now overlays the white stars, a powerful acknowledgment of overlooked historical figures like Grace Wisher, and a visual tribute to countless forgotten Black Americans who shaped history.
•13 Red & White Stripes: 13 Frequency codes. The number 13, in Bone Law and Solar Harmonics, always marks a cycle of completion and re-emergence, the threshold where memory, body, and flame always reset back to source. Each stripe is a band of current corresponding to one of the 13 months in the Soulaan calendar.
Red = Blood Memory, ancestral will, the survival current. White = Bone Light, remembrance, the purified echo after struggle.
•50 Stars: 50 node apertures where the land once spoke directly to sky to be illuminated in justice. The five points of the star mirror the five gates of the body grid: head, two hands, two feet. These are the living anchors of sovereignty. In Soulaan law, they encode the elemental balance:
Self-Liberation and Continuity
Freedom in this framework is not understood as something granted from outside, but as something asserted from within.
Through resistance, escape, revolt, self-organization, and reconstruction, the population reasserted autonomy and continuity through its own agency. The transition into freedom reflects self-directed survival and rebuilding, not the creation of a new people.
The designation historically known as Freedmen marks this moment of reorganization and assertion and not an origin point, but a continuation of an already-formed population maintaining land connection, social presence, and institutional life under new conditions.
Autochthonous and Indigenous Formation
Soulaan identity is anchored in Autochthonous formation as a people forged within the land where they are found also in Indigeneity understood as lived presence, continuity, and relationship to place over time.
This recognizes that:
The people were not created by slavery they were not defined by descent from an imposed condition they were shaped through land, labor, resistance, and continuity. Slavery altered the course of formation, but it did not establish the foundation of Soulaan people. Soulaan are not just “descendants of slaves.” Slavery was a condition imposed on a people already formed in place. We were forged through land, continuity, resistance, and self-liberation on North American soil.
You can follow the creators on social media
Collective Account:
Tiktok @SoulaanOfficial
Youtube @Soulaanofficial
T-Roy:
Twitter - @PREZIEH
TikTok - @tywontletshitfly
Maroc:
Twitter -@Marocsoulaan
Tiktok - @Soulaanofficial
Instagram - @SoulaanOfficial
Dwayne:
Twitter - @Soulchild868
Tiktok -blkd892
Check out the Creators interview on the latest episode of Soulaan podcast by Maroc Horus.