The Bakkers are a nomad family located in North America. Sometime before 2077, they merged with Snake Nation and dissipated within their ranks. It's unknown if the family has been comepletly dissolved or still active under Snake Nation.
History[]
The Bakkers family was under the leadership of Selita Bakker for many years. Selita believed in centralized decision-making and ruled with an iron fist; her decisions were met with no dissent and her orders were carried out immediately. Despite her domineering style of leadership, she was held with deep respect and affection by the Bakkers — everyone in her family loved her. These factors combined to make her position of leadership unassailable. However, toward the end of her life, Selita seemed to regret that none of her family members attempted to take her position for themselves, or to even question her authority.
Selita's death was a watershed moment for the Bakkers. Her absence brought about a power vacuum that, as the Bakkers would learn over the following six years, nobody else in the family was able to adequately fill. Three leadership transitions would follow, nobody holding the position for more than two years, each. In the first of these three leadership transitions, Selita was succeeded by DeLou Bakker, who ended up dying during a skirmish with Raffen Shiv. The leadership then fell to Lorna Ruiz, who ended up resigning within two years. Chari Dahlin took her place as the family's fourth leader in six years; however, one day Chari simply abdicated her responsibilities by gathering her belongings and abruptly leaving the family camp, never to be seen by the Bakkers again. After depending so long on Selita's "iron-fisted" style of leadership, it seemed nobody was capable of making any firm, unilateral decisions.
A succession of subsequent leaders were even less fit to lead the family, ruling without any conviction, presiding over economic hardships such as letting supplies run low and having contracts and agreements with other nomad clans break down. Eventually the influence of the Bakkers had receded to the point where they could no longer operate autonomously, and the decision was made to merge with Snake Nation. However, not all members of the Bakkers were in agreement with their family being subsumed: many young members, such as Trin Bakker (Selita's granddaughter), saw this merger as the true end of the Bakkers and thus left the family to find their own fortune; none of the young Bakkers who left retained any links with the members who merged with Snake Nation.[1]
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