[William Terrell]

There's no reason to assume the tribes moved as tribes and retained identity as tribes. Mixing it up with the Assyrians in alliance with other peoples and then getting out of the area probably did some real damage to their tribal structure.

It does appear that memory is returning, though, but probably as members of the Northern Kindom, not of a specific tribe therein, would be my guess.

[LostTribe]

>There's no reason to assume the tribes moved as tribes and retained identity as tribes. Mixing it up with the Assyrians in alliance with other peoples and then getting out of the area probably did some real damage to their tribal structure.

That could well be true. Some scholars place a great deal of emphasis on intra-tribal cohesion during the migrations westward and northward, to the point of citing Biblical and other evidence they feel links certain tribes to certain current countries.

Unlike the basic Lost Tribes of Israel history outlined at my Profile, I have never felt entirely comfortable making those associations.