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Kemahanacommacah | Grand Confederacy of Kemahana

 * Government: Pseudo-feudal elective monarchy
 * Weroance:
 * Moskatachaw (1384-1421)
 * Sikankanna (1421-)
 * Economy: Our economy is divided between a subsistence farming and a nomadic hunter-gatherer economy, mainly based on ethnic divisions. However, the introduction of horses (brought during the Exile) has revolutionized the process of hunting game, and cattle ranching and pastoralism has also begun to take shape, especially in rural peripheral regions. We are also beginning to see the very beginnings of urbanization, although much of the population is still nomadic or lives in villages with less than 200 people.
 * Capital: Tanacoma
 * Demographics:
 * Population: 53,239
 * Tanacoma: 7,525
 * Pocahontocoma: 3,705
 * Utemaca: 2,475
 * Iyi Sipi: 1,525
 * Kanatsasipi: 1,065
 * Nisinima: 712
 * Other settled towns and villages: 18,109
 * Nomadic population: 17,123
 * Religion: 37.7% Pocahontist (20,0065 ppl), 62.3% other (mainly assorted Native American beliefs; 33,174 ppl)
 * Pocahontism: Born during the devastation of the Accursed Plagues (most likely smallpox, typhus and other Old World diseases) in the early and mid-1200s AD, which killed up 70-80% of the population of the Powhatan Confederacy, Pocahontism is an offshoot branch of the Hellenic pagan religion (with ample amounts of influence from Christianity and Native American traditions). The main difference between Pocahontism and the Greek pantheon is the equation of Pocahontas, a Powhatan chief-turned-deity, with Zeus, Athena, and Aphrodite.
 * Orthodox Pocahontism: This sect of Pocahontism purports to be the sect which preserves the original theology of early Pocahontism the most. Orthodox Pocahontists believe that Pocahontas is the godhead and ruler of all the gods (a mix of ancestral spirits and Hellenic gods). Orthodox Pocahontists hold that Pocahontas and her spirit has, upon death, forever left the realm of the living, and only by praying through a weroance (chief) or a shaman shall Pocahontas hear your prayer. Orthodox Pocahontists teach that the Accursed Plague is punishment for a sinful society, and to avoid disease, one must live a virtuous and pious life. Orthodox Pocahontists are by far the most numerous and established of the Pocahontists, and Orthodox priests control almost all of the Pocahontist temples and shrines in Kemahana.
 * Incarnationism: Incarnationism holds that the Spirit of Pocahontas lives on in each and every human, living thing, and inanimate object (in effect a form of pantheism). Incarnationism diverges from the other Pocahontist sects in that it denies the existence of other gods and ancestral spirits as distinct entities, merely suggesting that they, too, are concentrations of the Spirit of Pocahontas. They are a small but growing minority amongst Pocahontists, and are mostly prevalent in the ranks of scholastic types.
 * Trialism: Entrenched within Kemahanan military families, Trialism teaches that the Accursed Plague (which they call the Plague of Judgement) is a tool to "judge" whether a man is pure of heart and of sin or not. They have become known for subjecting their children to a rite of passage where they are locked in a room with the corpse of a person (usually a family member) who died of the Accursed Plague, with enough food and water for a week. In Trialism, the eternal Spirit of Pocahontas is present in the Plague of Judgement. Other gods and ancestral spirits are acknowledged here, although only Pocahontas has the authority to forgive all a man's past and future sins via the Accursed Plague.
 * Other religions: Many native traditions and faiths continue, especially amongst the Miskawen population.
 * Ethnicity: 31.9% Wisawen (17,011 ppl), 68.1% Miskawen (36,215 ppl)
 * Wisawen: The Wisawen (lit. yellow men) are the descendants of the Powhatan Exiles led by Usquehannatoco. A mix of several different ethnic groups from across the OTL US East, South and Midwest, as well as minuscule amounts of white European admixture, the Wisawen are the noble ruling class of the Kemahanacommacah. They are almost uniformly settled agricultural peoples, and form a majority in most of the western areas directly adjacent to the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
 * Miskawen: "Miskawen" (lit. red men) is a blanket term for all the ethnic groups indigenous to Kemahana. These include the Ute, Shoshone, Apache, Comanche, Cheyenne and Arapaho, amongst other groups. Many of these peoples remain nomadic, although there has been increasing pressure for them to adopt settled agricultural or pastoral practices.
 * Languages: Although most people continue to speak their ancestral mother tongue at home, and Literary Powhatan continues to be used as the official language of administration, a creole language has begun to be used in casual and commercial instances, based heavily on Powhatan, Cherokee, Ute, Shoshone, Comanche, and Arapaho.
 * Military: The Kemahanan military is mainly a levy-based system, although minuscule standing armies are used as garrisons in frontier areas to protect against raids. As the Miskawen become more integrated into Kemahanan society, our military has also begun recruiting them as quality horsemen. Most of our weapons are stone weapons due to the lack of iron and bronze in the region, with our only bronze and iron weapons being extremely prized heirlooms dating back all the way to before the Exile. However, we are beginning to get some bronze weapons made, due to access to plentiful copper mines in Lepai-controlled territory.
 * Infantry: 500 (3,500 reserves)
 * Archers: 250 (2,500 reserves)
 * Cavalry: 100 (2,000 reserves)
 * Wars and Conflicts: N/A
 * Diplomacy: N/A
 * Events:
 * The Wigwami Mawisi: Pocahontist sects from all over the country begin building the famous Wigwami Mawisi, or the House of Life, deep in the Rocky Mountains in Kemahana's western frontier (around OTL Aspen, CO). Part temple, part library, and part fortress, the Wigwami Mawisi would become the center of Pocahontism (sort of like a Native American Vatican), as well as a major center of resistance against European colonizers, and a major center of learning and education. It continues to remain one of the largest tourist attractions in the area today.
 * Connecting the Nation: With Kemahana mostly being a group of cities separated by vast prairies, Weroance Sikankanna orders the construction of paths connecting the cities of Kemahana with one another. He also founds the renowned Giniwomin, or the Eagle Force, to patrol the nation's roads, fending off raiders and settling disputes. The Ginimowin would slowly evolve into Kemahana's police force.
 * Five Cities of Silver, Two of Gold: Crown Weroansqua Dilyéhé, Sikankanna's wife and the daughter of the late Lepai Binanit'a'i Atsa Bidzii, has turned out to be quite the poet. Publishing her classic book of poems; A Thousand Starry Skies in late 1427, her most renowned poem is her famous Five Cities of Silver, Two of Gold, in which she addresses her homesickness for her desert homeland despite the bounties of the plains of Kemahana. With A Thousand Starry Skies eventually making it as far as Mesoamerica, it is this poem that inspired the conquistador's tale of the Seven Cities of Silver and Gold, better known as the Seven Cities of Cibola.