I know there are people who just say that Mathew and Alfred (and in this stort Diego as well) are the sons of Native America.
But that's all that Native America is.
And I want to make it clear to people how I personally see Native America.
I see her as their mother yes but as the ground itself.
She was the one who gave birth to hundreds of other children from the highly known Navajo and Cherokee to lesser known Shawnee and Hidatsa.
Sioux and Dakota as well as many others.
But some (not all) did not have one place. They moved from season to season following the Buffalo they would hunt down but only enough to eat, the fish they would trap with expertly crafted cages, and other things.
Some lived in the tipi/tepee/teepee that unlike shown in the media could fit up to 50 people. The homes to the plains natives that were commonly nomads.
In northern California they built huge log houses that could fit multiple families while in southern california they used reeds from the plants and made huge dome homes that they lived in.
Some natives made homes on the sides of cliffs and mountains. While others used the forest to set their homes.
The natives were extremely diverse but they all lived on the same land.
Native America.
She didn't have her own culture.
There is no "native American lifestyle"
There are similarities over large groups of tribes but no two tribes were alike. From the gods they worship to how they dressed.
She was all of her children yet none at all.
As she travels the lands she would meet her children, the different tribes and use their own customs.
Each tribe had their own personification.
And if she was by herself she would use those of who she had just visited.
She was their mother. Native America.
She was the land itself while her children were the tribes who had their own people.
She was a nomad; she had no real house because everything was her; she was the ground that held them all together.
Alfred and Matthew might have started as their tribes in a way.
You could say that they both were originally Vinland. Also saying that Alfred was New Sweden while Matthew was Vindland.
Because Mattie was New France and Al was the colonies.
They were not like their siblings and where more so their mother.
They WERE the ground as well as their people took more space away for their siblings to rome and their mother to call her own.
Though when first born they would travel with their mother, the original settlements too weak to hold their own.
They saw the customs of their siblings, each tribe giving their own name for the twins.
With them came their mother's and siblings' demise. They like their mother where the land itself.
Native America was their mother but she was not the tribes. She was simply the ground on which they lived and what connected them to each other.
This is a discussion I felt like I needed to clarify because I'm sure that I have mentioned her in the past usually whenever mentioning their mother.
If you are confused or want more insight of my version of native America please comment and I will get to it when I can.
This is important to understand to not disrespect native Americans and just put their history in one group like we are taught in school and in the media because in reality they themselves where their own nations.
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The North American Trio
FanfictionA series of one-shots about The North American Trio (America, Canada, and Mexico) Will occasionally have Greenland and other countries from the Americas.