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This post and the comments are here to help and educate non-Natives either learn or get a better understanding of our Tribes, ourselves, and our histories. It can be your own Tribes or another's histories, cultures, and folklore.
Its painful to tell the stories and heartbreaking looking back on how much and how many we've lost, I'm sorry in advanced.
Here are some that I know:
Pocahontas was ~11 when she got kidnapped by John Smith who was ~28.
She was later held hostage until her father, the Chief, would give John and his crew food. But there wasn't enough to go around for everyone, so the Chief made a hard choice and gave them the food but she was still held captive. She died when she was in her early 20s.
Many of the Wampanoag were the first to be slaughtered at the first Thanksgiving, they were ambushed and killed for trusting the wrong people.
The Europeans STUNK because they didn't wash their bodies and didn't even know about hygiene. Many cousins had to teach them how to bathe unclothed because being nude was seen as unmoddest to the Europeans, which is why women showing ankles was seen as being a ahem or worse.
Many Tribes leaders in places like Florida were given a Treaty to sign, to have their own 'big' lands where many of us can live with our own laws, but what many got were drastically smaller than what they signed.
Many of us were enslaved, abused, r*ped, cannibalized, and so much.
It wasn't just exclusive to Africans.
The reason many died was because the Europeans carried tons of diseases with them since they didn't wash or care about hygiene. We hadn't had anything as bad as what they carried here so we unfortunately died because of it.
Many of our Tribes translate to either people, foreigner, or home/village, like Canada is actually Kanata.
Many of us had better ways of health, from teeth care to willow bark for pain relief.
We would use cedar, tobacco, sage, sweetgrass, and other natural medicines.
Foods like corn, maple syrup, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, etc originated in the Americas.
I know our histories are sugarcoated a lot, hopefully this changes, the real histories of colonization and how many of us were betrayed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous:_The_Beginning
this is a game I played a lot as a child, been playing it again recently
since it has this "tribal" style to it I searched on google to see if there was opinions about it from a indigenous perspective, but havent found any
