Collective for Neo-Tribal Renaissance of the Palouse
Welcome to the official website for CNTR of the Palouse! We are a brave collective that has decided to give a voice and a presence to the growing Neo-tribalism that often informs the social movements of our times, but is not always named. We aim to reach people by creating real experiences of alternative relationships and resource structures. We believe that people need to experience alternatives in order to understand them. Through outreach, demonstration, art, and innovative spaces, CNTR helps everyday people understand their needs better and envision a society here those needs get met, for real.
The Global Movement for Women and Children
Since the maturation of Millennial women, the world has seen an explosion in awareness of the meaning of emotional intelligence, and coupled with the ground-breaking research on trauma seen in this past decade, this has contributed to a meteoric rise in consciousness of what drives human relational needs. The discourse on what it means to heal in a rapidly declining late-stage capitalist empire has been facilitated by the unprecedented connectedness of the Information Age; never before has the US or the world at large been this connected and unified in our understanding of the systems around us. This discourse has been marked by a growing consensus on what has brought us to this point and what will heal us: respect for the needs of humans as a tribal species that evolved to live in small communities centered around women and children.
What is Neo-Tribalism
Neo-tribalism can mean many things, and is often connected to aesthetics and fashion statements adopted by counter-culture factions; for our purposes Neo-tribalism refers to a frame of reference for human needs that centers our relational biology as beings who have evolved to live in small tribal units; our lense, when cast upon a post-modern, post-industrial world, is meant to inform and inspire rather than clash with existing demands. What does it look like to move society towards gentler, more human structures that respect our biology? Our mission is to continually ask this question while spreading awareness of the phenomenal research on human tribal biology that is already beginning to inform therapists, legislators, activists and artists.
What CNTR Is
CNTR is first and foremost a voice for human need; we are here to help people clarify their lived inner experience by providing them with vocabulary, science, art and spaces that illuminate their nature as tribal creatures. We believe that form follows presence; start with a voice, create spaces, and the resources follow.
OUR VALUES
Need Determines Access
In our current world access to resources is centered around the most violent forms of power.
The Vulnerable Come First
When the most vulnerable are provided for so is everyone else.
Soft Hierarchy
Soft hierarchy involves forms of authority that are based on service and nurturing and helping. It is fluid and open to movement within ranks because positions are based on what you can do for others, not how you can intimidate.
Meet Our Founders
Skye Williams
Founder
Skye is a long time Moscow citizen who grew up in the tradition of fundamentalist Christian cult that was shaped by the PTSD of her father, a probable Native descendant and combat veteran. It wasn’t until her late 20s that she began to piece together the reasons for the mental illness around her, and through years of therapy and research she has come to understand that the root of human need is tribal. She founded CNTR because she knows that a self-sustaining, non-corporate, Neo-tribal style community is what SHE needs, and that she can’t meet this need for herself without meeting it for other people.
Skye has a degree in Creative Writing and many years of experience in the healthcare industry, as well as some experience in administration and food service/retail management. She has danced various genres for over ten years and teaches a community shuffle dance class for adults with a special somatic focus that helps people to understand their bodies and nervous systems through movement. She is an avid painter and runs the ongoing art project Bullshit Moon, which portraits the odd moments that result from being a feeling person in a mysterious world. She is the host of the Apocalypse Pals podcast and Pariah blog.
Jordan Foulger
Co Founder
Jordan's family moved to Moscow from Far West, Utah at the age of 12. His displacement never quite vanished as his new peers already knew each other since childhood, and most disappeared from his life just as quickly once he entered adulthood during the COVID lockdowns. Between then and now, he has spent his years working multiple retail and maintenance jobs, all while deconstructing his Mormon faith. This deconstruction mindset deepened as his curiosity migrated to society, politics, psychology, and philosophy, leading him to realize (among many others) the hoax of late stage capitalist/colonial culture and the historic karma we all share.
By the summer of 2025, Jordan had found himself broke, unemployed, and ostracized. As he struggled to find a decent job, he began attending local protests after the bombing of Iran, and got involved with several grassroots activist movements on the Palouse. With a new foundation of community and solidarity he hadn’t known before, his later conversations with Skye helped lay the foundations for CNTR and the Apocalypse Pals podcast, each in the hopes of planting seeds in the collective consciousness for a Neo-tribal culture capable of supporting those in need.
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