Indigenous Tribes

Did research on tribes and how they experience love and affection. People experience love in different ways, through touch, through listening, respecting culture and traditions, admiring their history and legacy.
Bedouins in Petra, admiring city of Petra and Itza in Mexico (Mayan city), respectiing their legacy and seeing the ruins as holy and sacred. Is also a way of showing love to other people.
Awa tribe in Brazil (Amazon rainforest), under threat because of lumber and oil. They are uncontacted and you cannot visit them. You can show respect through prayer so you don't have to physically being there. Prayer as a form of positive gossip.
Sentinelese people, another uncontacted tribe. Maintained uncontacted status for centuries by choice. If an outsider breaks this (protected by UN) they would be killed by tribes people. A Christian minister was killed a few years ago. Could spread diseases if contacting them. Praying for them is one way of showing that you care, shows your heart, purest forms of love, not performative.
Tibetan people, monks especially, are interesting. You can show love by just sitting with them. Related to Asian culture. Accompanying someone without talking, is also appreciated. Is also an act of love. Their funeral tradition is sky funeral, taking corpse to high point in mountains and let vultures have them. Only reserved for inner circle, no strangers allowed. As a way to give back to nature. Also shows love, but to the earth.
Maori tribe from Polynesia and New Zealand, customs to show love and compassion, touching noses and forehead together while holding forearms.
Navaho tribe in North America, have a hunting culture, participating in their culture and activities is a form of love and care.
The Zulu tribe in South Africa, showing love by fixing their drums and other broken things, mending and repairing. Participating in cultural activities is an act of showing love to them.
Mapuche tribe in Argentina and Chili, when someone passes away, they wail uncontrollably, a way of showing sensitivity and showing that you care for that lost member of the family.
Easter Island,
Siberia,
Inuit tribe in Canada and Alaska, hunting for food, participating in their cultural activities, like hunting and watching over their children and staying vigilant shows appreciation of them. Getting to know them personally.
Ainu tribe in Japan, they are not endangered like the Rohinya, but their culture is going extinct. Carrying their culture around the world is a way to show love and care. Found way the Ainu pray, rubbing hands and opening them to the heavens to show they have nothing to hide, bringing this tradition to others to let it travel.

Tribes are isolated from the world in some way. The outcasts of the outcasts, shunned by their own community. Karen tribe (SE asia) they have outcasts, they shun them and live in refugee camps on border of Myanmar and Thailand. I explore how my character shows love to them by going to these people (part of a short story, episodic ballad).

Some indigenous tribes experience genocide. The Rohinya in Myanmar for example. Love and compassion goes through so many borders. It also means helping people through disasters.

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