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 to bring the Neo-tribal future into reality.
WHAT IS CNTR
CNTR is matriarchy - we give a voice and a presence to matriarchy and Neo-tribalism. We create a world were women and children are at the center of how resources are distributed and safety within community is defined.
We are here to show people that the big scary matriarchy is actually just a social order that puts the vulnerable people at the center of all we do, and at the center of our power structures.
Circular community does not equal the inverse of patriarchy.
OUR VISION
Our ultimate goal is to direct the resources of housing and workspace to provide unconditionally for the most vulnerable in the community. To rewrite culture by rewriting how we direct access to resources. Culture structures itself around resources, and the heart of a culture is it’s ETHOS OF ACCESS. What is an ethos of access? The ethos of access is the guiding ethic of Who gets What and When. If access to basic resources is only provided in exchange for obedience to exploitation, then pedophilia and misogyny will be the protected values of that culture. The only way to defeat this is to write an ethos of access that is ruled by need; need is what determines access. If you get housing, it’s because you need it. If you get food, it’s because you need it.
Yes, this is a lofty goal. The first step is presence, voice, and space, and you can start anywhere to create these. We believe that FORM FOLLOWS PRESENCE. We bring our central principles to everything we do, 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, and women and children are not only left behind but farmed to be raped, eaten and tortured.
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 Members
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 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 Pariah 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 slowly deconstructing his Mormon faith. This critical 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 Pariah 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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