North American Minors

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Native Tribes of North America

Alignments: Most of these tribes are not monolithic institutions, but generally share some alignment one way or the other towards the Europeans (or against them all).
Rivalries: Tribes, and their interactions with Europeans, are driven as much by their abilities to overpower their rivals (internal and external) as they are by bilateral relationships.  

Iroquoian Confederacy
Population: 50,000
Geography: Western New York, coastal Pennsylvania (along Lake Erie)
Military: 4-12 light infantry regiments
Resources: 2 (fur)
Rivals: Shawnee
Alignment: Pro-Dutch, Pro-French, and anti-European factions roughly equal

Shawnee
Population: 50,000
Geography: control the Allegheny Mountains. The colonial border stops at their border, and points west are part of the French Ohio.
Military: 2-8 light infantry regiments
Rivals: Iroquois
Alignment: Neutral

Cherokee
Population: 40,000
Geography: Upland Carolinas
Military: 4-12 light infantry regiments
Rivals: Saponi
Alignment: Pro and Anti-Irish factions

Saponi
Population: 20,000
Geography: Shenandoah Valley (Western VA, Western MD)
Military: 2-4 light infantry regiments
Rivals: Cherokee
Alignment: Loosely pro-Dutch

Mohicans
Population: 10,000
Geography: Mid Hudson valley, Western Massachusetts
Military: 2-3 light infantry regiments
Rivals: Abenaki
Alignment: Loosely pro-Dutch

Abenaki
Population: 20,000
Geography: Northern New Hampshire/Maine
Military: 2-4 light infantry regiments
Rivals: Mohicans
Alignment: Pro-English and pro-French factions

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Delegations are sent to tribal leaders of the Shawnee, Cherokee and Saponi bearing gifts (.41 points allocated to this) and seeking expanded trading relationships. Factions in the tribes are invited to bring delegations to the new settlement of New Amstel (OTL Washington), which it is hoped can be a trading hub for the region. They are also quietly informed that the Dutch will be more than happy to sell them modern European arms in return for their friendship, and assured that the Dutch colonies have no interest in expanding into territory controlled by the tribes. New Amstel itself is a bustle of activity with the construction of the fort and settlement and the deployment of a new garrison brigade.