The One West Camp is a subdivision of Hebrew Israelite groups that believe in the Old Testament, the New Testament and the exclusive identification of the Twelve Tribes of Israel with ethnic communities of Black, Latin American, and Native American descent in the Americas.
The school has since splintered into numerous "camps", with the New York-based Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ being the most recent name change, and the Pennsylvania-based Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge bearing the most similar name.
[2] The founder of the first grouping and the movement was Abba Bivens (real name Edward Meredith Bibbins, also known as Eber Ben Yomin), who claimed a former slave taught him that Blacks and Native Americans were actually Israelites while traveling from Pennsylvania to New York.
While Bivens founded the One West style of Hebrew Israelism, many of the specific doctrines that typify it were created by Yaiqab's son Ahrahyah, including a reliance on the King James Bible, the Twelve Tribes Chart which assigned the peoples of the Americas to specific Israelite tribes, and the new form of Hebrew known as Lashawan Qadash (Holy Tongue).
[6][1] The great majority of Black Hebrew Israelite groups outside of One West Camp and Nation of Yahweh do not share these beliefs.