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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7473002" data-attributes="member: 6925649">I'm not sure they would still have tribes if they were as technically advanced as Columbus. What tribe did Columbus belong to? The minute someone says the word "tribe" I imagine someone wearing animal skins, face paint, and feathers and moccasins. Columbus didn't wear those things, I'm not sure the hypothetical Indians would be wearing them either. The best example of what they might be like is if you can imagine this, Edgar Rice Burrows, "Red Martians", they were basically humanoid enough for John Carter to fall in love with one of them Deja Thoris.<img src="http://assets2.ignimgs.com/2016/02/03/rsz1dejah-thoris-1-1jpg-c74334_1280w.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Deja Thoris was basically very much like an American Indian, it is interesting that John Carter has an encounter with a real Indian, that tried to kill him, right before he teleported to Mars. The Red Martians he described as looking very much like American Indians, only they built cities carried swords and pistols and operated machinery, this might be something like the Indians in the setting I'm talking about here. They certainly do have swords and pistols, not your typical image of a stereotypical Indian now is it! You have to get that idea out of your head, these are not those Indians, they don't live in teepees any more.</blockquote>