The Indigo Tribe is a fictional organization that appears in DC Comics publications, primarily those of the Green Lantern series.

4) #25, published in December 2007, where it is described as having a reclusive nature that makes it the most elusive group among its peers; the Tribe's stated purpose is to spread goodwill throughout the universe.

[1] In a March 2009 interview with Newsarama, creator Geoff Johns said that the Indigo Tribe would be introduced within the upcoming Blackest Night series.

[8] The June 2009 Blackest Night #0 promotional material describes the group as being unknown to the DC Universe at large.

[9] The Indigo Tribe made its first extended appearance in the July 2009 issue Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps #1.

Ethan Van Sciver, who created the initial design for the Indigo Tribe, said that members of the group abandon everything and devote themselves to compassion.

Van Skiver also designed the staff, which he wanted to look "lovingly handmade by people who had better things to do than make themselves look good," and said that his initial thoughts were that the Tribe would be opposites to the Orange Lanterns.

A group of Indigo Tribesmen, led by Indigo-1, traverses a desert landscape in Sector 3544, where it observes explosive displays of green and yellow light in the distance.

The group investigates the site and finds a wounded porcine[clarification needed] Green Lantern Corps member lying on the ground.

He reports that he was in a conflict with a "being who knows no mercy," and despite his coughing up blood, difficulty speaking, and open head injuries, he tells the group to stay away so as to not attract the being's attention.

Indigo-1 says something, but when the Green Lantern member asks his ring to translate, it replies that it cannot, despite having a catalog of known languages in the DC Universe.

[12] Indigo-1 and Munk arrive on Earth to help Hal Jordan, the Flash, and the Atom escape from a group of Black Lanterns, which are former superheroes that have been reanimated.

Indigo-1 channels Jordan's green light through her staff, and turns Black Lanterns Elongated Man and Sue Dibny to ash by destroying their rings.

If all seven Corps cooperate, they can recreate the white light of creation and permanently destroy the Black Lanterns and their power source.

After the pair agrees, the group travels to Ryut but discovers that the Black Central Power Battery has been moved to Earth.

Indigo-1 and Black Hand revisit Hal Jordan, Barry Allen, Sinestro, Saint Walker and Larfleeze.

Given Hand's role in Blackest Night, Jordan suspects that other Indigo Tribe members may have committed evil deeds in the past.

The Indigo Tribe offers to take the remaining emotional entities into protective custody, but Jordan declines.

[21] In the War of the Green Lanterns storyline, Krona has trapped Indigo-1 and the allied Corps members in the Book of the Black,[22][23] where they are forced to re-live their lives prior to acquiring their current rings.

[25] When Sinestro tries to break free of the book, he finds in a prison cell Indigo-1, who went by the name Iroque prior to joining the Indigo Tribe.

In this new timeline, the Indigo Tribe learns that Sinestro is returning to Earth to assume his old role of Green Lantern.

[28] Jordan tricks Black Hand into recharging his ring, and escapes; however, he discovers that Sinestro has been forcibly inducted into the Indigo Tribe.

When Abin Sur, one of the greatest Green Lanterns of all time, arrived on Nok, he allied with Natromo, one of the remaining free natives, and fought against the invaders.

Though the rest of the indigenous people returned to the jungles after they were freed, Natromo stayed to teach Abin Sur the ways of the Indigo light.

Abin Sur knew about the prophecy of the Blackest Night, and once it had passed, the end of the Green Lantern Corps would be at hand.

"[42] :Tor lorek san, bor nakka mur, Proselyte is a squid-like entity, the embodiment of compassion, and the source of power for the Indigo Lanterns.

Robin S. Rosenberg, a clinical psychologist and editor of the anthology The Psychology of Superheroes, describes compassion as being able to have empathy for someone while maintaining enough distance to understand their motivations.

[48] Members can use indigo light to teleport themselves and others over vast intergalactic distances; this drains much of the ring's power, so the wearer uses it sparingly.

[12] In Blackest Night, Indigo-1 and Munk use a combination of different emotional lights to destroy members of the Black Lantern Corps.