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Soooooo I was wondering if there were any Native American members here in the forums, or, failing that, people familiar enough with them.
Why? Well... I've been interested in Native American culture ever since I was a kid, but I was never able to really delve into it. As in, I was never able to know enough about it that I could, say, write a NA character without being afraid to run into problems like unwitting stereotyping and inconsistency (which I do. Want to write a character, I mean). It's just a reality with which I sadly don't have any sort of contact.
It doesn't help that there are literally hundreds of different tribes, each different in their own right, and my research doesn't really yield useful results. I mean, it does, in terms of history and such, but nothing much in the way of how these people are like, how they live nowadays, their cultural quirks, and so forth. You know, stuff that would help with character building. Plus, I always love learning about different cultures, especially from the people in them. It just makes me all warm inside!
It feels a little weird to ask something like this, but I hope I'm not coming across as weird myself. o_o I had all of this much better written, but Firefox ate it when it logged me out for no reason. Blarg.
Why? Well... I've been interested in Native American culture ever since I was a kid, but I was never able to really delve into it. As in, I was never able to know enough about it that I could, say, write a NA character without being afraid to run into problems like unwitting stereotyping and inconsistency (which I do. Want to write a character, I mean). It's just a reality with which I sadly don't have any sort of contact.
It doesn't help that there are literally hundreds of different tribes, each different in their own right, and my research doesn't really yield useful results. I mean, it does, in terms of history and such, but nothing much in the way of how these people are like, how they live nowadays, their cultural quirks, and so forth. You know, stuff that would help with character building. Plus, I always love learning about different cultures, especially from the people in them. It just makes me all warm inside!
It feels a little weird to ask something like this, but I hope I'm not coming across as weird myself. o_o I had all of this much better written, but Firefox ate it when it logged me out for no reason. Blarg.