I found out Crow and Coyote was at my local library and was curious so I decided to take a look.
I was hoping to show it to my Cree Buddies, but I start thumbing through it and found out they put an ice sheet over Canada.
This annoys me because I am of the firm believer that you need to present a location locally and I was hoping to present it to the education board at Maskwacis.
They do have a "divergent world" setting and added a bunch of environmental and ecological phenomena after the purple comet. Some of that is the rational for why there's been no contact with Europeans. I remember what appeared to be major volcanic eruptions culminating with a mini-ice age, which by default is going to come from the poles.
Have you looked to see if they shifted your peoples further south, past the Great Lakes?
I bet there is a darn near 100% chance they have talked about this already. All of C&C discussion happens on their Discord server = link can be found on this page =
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According to the creators they are both adding the Cree to their expansion setting book, and adding some snippits of Cree language too.
UPDATE:
FYI, the Cree are ancestor tribe in C&C book... because the timeline is many years later...
Page 77
At the top of the Haudenosaunee
social schema are the Yavi, hereditary
descendents of powerful individuals from the inception of the
Confederacy. Not only do they enjoy a privileged role at home, but
they also operate as major power
brokers across the continent. At
the bottom are the Unlad, primarily migratory descendants of Cree
and Anishinabe peoples who have
taken on roles as international
traders and domestic workers
without fully integrating into the
rest of the Nation.
Now, think about the Athabaskansⁱ¹, Tlingtit², Tsimshian², Haida², Yupiq/Yupic¹, Inupiak¹, Inuit³
...the west coast and north coasts of Canada, and all of Alaska... All of whom are off the map or buried
¹: Alaskan
²: Canadian West Coast and Alaska Panhandle.
³: Canadian North, as well as being generalized to many groups not directly part of the Inuit culture,