Native Americans

Native American is a term used to denote the Amerindian peoples that populated North and South America before its "discovery" by Europeans. European contact generally resulted in profound suffering for these peoples.

European colonization began a process of outright land theft and disenfranchisement of the native peoples that continued into American history. Tribes such as the Cherokee and the Creek were forced off their ancestral lands in Georgia under President Andrew Jackson and forcibly relocated to Indian Territory.

Native Americans in Atlantis[]

Basque fishermen first began the enslavement of the copperskin natives of Terranova in the 1460s. By the 18th century, French and Spanish Atlantis based its economy on the enslavement of copperskins and Negroes. Furious and enslaved copperskins actively plotted rebellion with African fellow-bondsmen.

Spain built its empire on the backs of the gold-rich natives of southern Terranova. The Spanish also treated their copperskin and black slaves badly in its Atlantean colony, causing major hatreds and many rebellions. The Europeans usually manipulated any rivalry between copperskins and blacks to defeat any uprisings.

During the Atlantean War of Independence, Britain hired copperskin mercenaries to invade Avalon. General Victor Radcliff responded by sending 100 men to help support the Avalon militia. After the war, many Terranovan slavery increased, especially in the former English Atlantis.

During the Atlantean Servile Insurrection in 1852, the revolt of the slaves, the copperskins and the blacks cooperated to free themselves. In fact, Frederick Radcliff, leader of the uprising, had a copperskin second-in-command.

Native Americans in Crosstime Traffic[]

Crosstime Traffic was aware of an alternate in which European civilization developed far later than in the home timeline. Consequently, Native American cultures were the most advanced. Footage taken in this alternate was shown to Jeremy Solters and his fellow students in US history class. In another, Europeans had never discovered North America and Native Americans still had a Bronze Age level of technology in the late 21st century.

Native Americans in In High Places[]

After the Great Black Deaths wiped out 80% of the population of 14th century Europe, the continent across the Atlantic Ocean, and its copperskined natives, were not contacted by the Muslim world until the late 21st century.

Native Americans in "The Pugnacious Peacemaker"[]

Skrellings was the name by which Native Americans were known in the alternate timeline where Allister Park found himself.

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Native Americans in Southern Victory[]

Native Americans fortunes varied dramatically after the War of Secession left them at the mercy of two rival governments.

Within the Confederacy those tribes living in the Indian Territory would dominate its successor, the state of Sequoyah. Thanks to Sequoyah's rich resources and the loyalty of its inhabitants to the CSA, the Confederate government treated the Five Civilized Tribes and other groups such as the Kiowa as valued partners and kept White settlement in the state to a minimum. The Seqouyans gained much influence in Confederate politics and even elected members of Congress. From the 1860s until c.1900 the Kiowa were allowed to raid Kansas from the safety of their base in Sequoyah, protected from retaliation by the CS Army.

Defeated in the War of Secession, the United States gained a measure of revenge by using the vast army it had mobilized to swiftly destroy the rebellious Sioux and other Plains tribes. Native Americans within US territory were forced onto reservations and mistreated. The Comanche living in New Mexico were an exception, being used to raid western Texas in the same manner that the Kiowa assailed Kansas.

The Apaches resisted being subdued in the same manner as the Plains tribes, and under the leadership of Geronimo they assisted CS Army forces during the Second Mexican War. After the war, however, long-standing enmity between the Apache and the CSA's former Mexican residents led to a falling out.

During the Great War Native Americans battled against the US Army's advance into Sequoyah, serving in both the Confederate Army and within militia forces such as the Creek Nation Army. Their efforts ultimately proved for naught when the USA succeeded in conquering the state and annexing it after the war. In the interwar years large numbers of White Americans, encouraged by the US government, migrated into Sequoyah. By the 1941 plebiscite they made up enough of the population to defeat Native American votes to return to the Confederacy.

During the Second Great War Confederate aid enabled Native Americans in Sequoyah to plunge the state into a de facto civil war. Between them and the pro-US population, the two sides ensured that the state's oil production was unable to significantly assist the American war effort.

Native Americans in The Two Georges[]

Certain Red Indian groups had sided with Britain during the Seven Years' War. As a reward, the British government did its best to limit the growth of white settlers in North America beyond the existing colonies. Ultimately, this was a failed policy; the white population could not be contained.

Nonetheless, various political leaders of the North American Union, most notably Governor-General George Washington, were able to postpone white appropriation of Indian territories long enough to make a difference. This enabled several groups of Natives to absorb British technologies and practises into their own societies and form Provinces where they dominated; their legal status was comparable to that of the Princely States in British India, where Native rulers continued to exercise power as long as they accepted the fact of British domination. Two Indian groups got Provinces of the NAU devoted to them: the Iroquois in the Province of The Six Nations and the Cherokee in the Province of Cherokee Nation.

In the 1990s, the Sons of Liberty called for North America to be occupied by only the pure and "original" settlers. An inconsistency in their demands was that they also wished the land to be rid of the Native Americans who predated the white settlers.

Native Americans in War World[]

America's Indian tribes suffered toward the end of the CoDominium era, when the ruthlessly efficient Bureau of Relocation would carry out sweeps of slums and of inconvenient minority groups to fill transport ships.