THE LINEAGE RESTORATIN MOVEMENT is the organized effort to provide reparations for the crime of ETHNOCIDE that was committed against the victims of the criminal Trans-Atlantic Trafficking of people with African Lineage and Heritage (CTATOPWALAH). ETHNOCIDE is the reason for the IDENTITY CRISIS in black America today. LRM’s primary concern is inspiring black/African Americans to use the DNA testing provided by African Ancestry to determine their maternal and paternal lineages and to use that knowledge to pursue an education designed to repair the damage done to our ethnic identities, spirituality and culture while organizing and centralizing itself to pursue all means of Justice. (see BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE LINEAGE RESTORATION MOVEMENT below)
Fundamental to that healing process is restoring the language that your ancestor (the one that survived the middle passage) spoke. LRM Co-founder Siphiwe Baleka has argued that the key to unlocking the ancient knowledge encoded in DNA is retrieving the code/key that was used to encode it in the first place - language. Listen to this Conversation Reparations With NCOBRA: Reparations thru Lineage Restoration.
On November 12, 2019, the Balanta B’urassa History and Genealogy Society in America established the Balanta Brassa Language Preservation Society in America (BBLPSIA). According to its By-Laws, its mission is to:
Section 1. To encourage descendants of the Balanta B’urassa in America to learn the Balanta B’urassa languages (Balanta-Kentohe and Balanta-Ganja).
Section 2. To emphasize the value and importance of speaking the Balanta B’urassa languages to future generations.
Section 3. To educate the community through outreach seminars and workshops to acknowledge the rich cultural heritage contained in the language of Balanta B’urassa people.
Section 4. To develop, recognize, transcribe, create, produce and publish educational materials on Balanta B’urassa languages.
Since then, it has lead the way in producing language learning resources for the movement through its Balanta Language Learning books and video series (more than 30 videos). Balanta Kentohé Language Lessons Series #3 Lesson 25 is a great case study showing how learning can unlock understanding about culture and spirituality.
Lesson 25
CULTURAL SUBJECT
KREETCH = mourning, death of someone.
Ksâkee = sickness.
Wssakee/wrahee = sick.
Whêha = to be healed, cured.
Kisna = to assist a sick person.
Knkiss = assistance of a sick person.
Lôda = to die
Hal lôd = somebody died.
Bnhanh nhân = people are crying.
Bnanh nrôhandee = people are crying bitterly.
Knkwla = tears.
Lôfina = to make oneself fall (generally women) by their back by overturing when someone dies.
Klôfi (noun of lôfina).
Swmee = corpse.
Arânhât (late, someone who died).
Lede = soul.
Kqpéba = to burry.
Kqpéba = burial.
B-bwhee = grave before burial.
Mtchétchi = when someone dies, they make a traditional bed of wood according to the height of the dead person covering it with a piece of cloth (red or white) used to cover the corpse. After some ceremonies, someone chosen people carry it. According to the belief the soul of the dead person come in it and tells what killed the person and what should be done in family. There is a specific person chosen to hold a dialogue with it and it agrees and disagrees, and moves to different places by people who carry it to show what it wants to show.
Sinha kreetch = to celebrate a death of someone.
Tchaklee = traditional Balanta drum.
Fitana = to beat tchaklee.
Kqbombor = celebration of death by beating tchaklee, shouting and killing animals.
Seekeena = to go to the witch doctor in order to know what happened.
Seekee = going to witch doctor.
Déssina = to recover a soul of a sick person caught in witchcraft, by a witch doctor.
Kdéssi = Recovering of soul of a sick person.
Afére/ wfére = wizard, witch. Bféri (plural)
Kfére = witchcraft.
Afwmi/ wfwmi = not wizard, witch.
Kfwmi = fact of not being a wizard/ witch.
Ftheelee = grave.
Click here to learn more about the modern Bféri
Click here to learn more about THE SPIRITUAL PROTECTIVE FUNCTION OF THE BALANTA PLACENTA TRADITION, THE UNITED STATES BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND THE SPIRITUAL DAMAGE OF SLAVERY
Click here to learn more about B’KINDEU & RANSOM: BALANTA PEOPLE REFUSED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CRIMINAL EUROPEAN TRANS ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
Click here to learn more about BALANTA AND THE POISON ORDEAL
Click here to learn more about the 26 Principles of the Great Belief of the Balanta Ancient Ancestors
BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE LINEAGE RESTORATION MOVEMENT
1. The Lineage Restoration Movement (LRM) is a response by the descendants of the people who were trafficked from the African continent, carried across the Atlantic ocean, and enslaved.
2. The LRM recognizes and understands that in addition to the theft of land, people, and labor, IDENTITIES were also stolen creating the current IDENTITY CRISIS experienced by black people in the Americas today.
3. Justice and healing, therefore require the return of that which was stolen.
4. In order to return the land and people, the stolen identities must (first) be restored.
5. The principal aim of LRM is to restore the ancestral lineages that were severed as a result of the criminal Trans-Atlantic trafficking and enslavement of people from the African continent.
6. This can be achieved by taking proprietary genetic tests from African Ancestry which uses technology that enables the identification of one’s maternal and paternal lineage.
7. LRM is trans-national since people of the same lineage were trafficked by people from multiple nations and enslaved in multiple nations.
8. LRM aims to organize the various ethnic lineages in a Lineage United Front to more effectively achieve Justice due to the victims of the criminal Trans-Atlantic Trafficking of People with African Lineage and Heritage (CTATOPWALAH).
9. LRM believes that at this time, FOR THE MOST EFFECTIVE USE OF REPARATIONS RESOURCES, THE PRIORITY FOR THE REPARATIONS MOVEMENT is to train and develop a professional class of genealogy researchers from among the victims of
CTATOPWALAH and deploy them as part of a modern day government Workers Project that will go throughout the United States and determine the genetic ancestry lineage and family history of every person claiming to be the descendants of the victims of CTATOPWALAH.
10. LRM demands any Reparations must include the following: right of each person to choose among and receive the remedy of one of the four natural options: (1) US citizenship, (2) return to the African continent, (3) emigration to another country and (4) the creation of a new nation on American soil by and for the victims of CTATOPWALAH.