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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 9565569" data-attributes="member: 9254">Back to the topic, SR was both divergent history and fictional future.&nbsp; SR's&nbsp; SAIM (sovereign American Indian Movement) was loosely based in the real world American Indian Movement (AIM), which was tarred as terrorists by the FBI in the 70s, not to mention betrayed by the Nixon administration.IMO the fiction treats the indigenous people well from a moral standpoint while simultaneously nearly eradicating them with various plagues, attempted genocide and a spell that killed the majority of their most spiritually knowledgeable members.&nbsp; The tribes were horrifically small in number after the Ghost Dances, but the governments gave up because they were so terrified the shaman would do more Ghost Dances. The Crashes wiped out digital records, the internment round ups destroyed physical artifacts.&nbsp; The cadre of real indigenous peoples were so few in numbers that the fiction's lax policies to accept &quot;pink skins&quot; into the tribes was necessary just to get enough plumbers/electricians/etc to establish a functioning society.&nbsp; So....are these cultures anything more the &quot;wiccans&quot; of an alt future?&nbsp; &quot;Inspired by&quot; the historic people but with so little surviving lore to really be a continuation?Do they just need to contextualize that at the very beginning?&nbsp; &quot;The tribal people of 2070 are not a direct continuation of the indigenous cultures. The BIA destroyed their libraries, museums and collected artifacts. What exists now is a pastiche assembled from the memories of the few that survived VITAS, VITAS2, the internment camps and the Ghost Dance.&nbsp; Even those traditions that were clearly recalled have been heavily modified to reflect the needs of those who can summon spirits and perform magic.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 9565569, member: 9254"] Back to the topic, SR was both divergent history and fictional future. SR's SAIM (sovereign American Indian Movement) was loosely based in the real world American Indian Movement (AIM), which was tarred as terrorists by the FBI in the 70s, not to mention betrayed by the Nixon administration. IMO the fiction treats the indigenous people well from a moral standpoint while simultaneously nearly eradicating them with various plagues, attempted genocide and a spell that killed the majority of their most spiritually knowledgeable members. The tribes were horrifically small in number after the Ghost Dances, but the governments gave up because they were so terrified the shaman would do more Ghost Dances. The Crashes wiped out digital records, the internment round ups destroyed physical artifacts. The cadre of real indigenous peoples were so few in numbers that the fiction's lax policies to accept "pink skins" into the tribes was necessary just to get enough plumbers/electricians/etc to establish a functioning society. So....are these cultures anything more the "wiccans" of an alt future? "Inspired by" the historic people but with so little surviving lore to really be a continuation? Do they just need to contextualize that at the very beginning? "The tribal people of 2070 are not a direct continuation of the indigenous cultures. The BIA destroyed their libraries, museums and collected artifacts. What exists now is a pastiche assembled from the memories of the few that survived VITAS, VITAS2, the internment camps and the Ghost Dance. Even those traditions that were clearly recalled have been heavily modified to reflect the needs of those who can summon spirits and perform magic." [/QUOTE]

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