tai ahoms n their lost identity?

i am an ahom teen who recently developed a curiosity to a somewhat dead and indianized culture of the tai ahoms

my family has a touch of karbi, and tai khamti, but since i am born and brought up around a mostly assamese society, i have null knowledge on my own ethnicity. (i am ashamed of calling it a "tribe" since no traces of its culture even remain intact)

the usage of bindis, or muga silk on the ahom attire, imo, fakes the entire essence of what the ahoms actually were and the lack of proper / correct representation is what I think diverts the people from counting the ahoms as one of the tribes/ethnic groups of NE.

(i think the inter mingling of different tribes and even assamese people with the ahoms have also contributed to the loss of ahom identity — including the prominent mongoloid features of a 'pure' ahom individual)

id love to hear what other NE people have to say on this lol