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Kemahanacommacah | Grand Confederacy of Kemahana

 * Government: Pseudo-feudal elective monarchy
 * Weroance:
 * Moskatachaw (1384-1421; Pocahontid Dynasty)
 * Sikankanna (1421-; Pocahontid Dynasty)
 * 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
 * Summer Capital: Dilyacoma
 * Demographics:
 * Population: 69,105
 * Tanacoma: 8,100
 * Pocahontocoma: 4,000
 * Utemaca: 3,315
 * Iyi Sipi: 1,900
 * Kanatsasipi: 1,625
 * Nisinima: 1,260
 * Dilyacoma: 2,500
 * Wakiigi: 820
 * Other settled towns and villages: 24,810
 * Nomadic population: 20,775
 * Religion: 40.2% Pocahontist (27,775 ppl), 58.8% other (mainly assorted Native American beliefs; 41,330 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: 33.3% Wisawen (23,002 ppl), 65.1% Miskawen (45,010 ppl), 1.6% Dinawen (1,093 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.
 * Dinawen: The Navajo, known as the Dinawen in the Kemahanan tongue, are the only other agricultural peoples the Kemahanans have regular contact with. As a result, they are considered separate to the primarily nomadic Miskawen tribes. The term "Dinawen" would eventually outgrow the Navajo ethnic group, becoming a blanket term for all established agricultural peoples of the American Southwest (incl. the Pueblo and Anasazi). Currently, the Dinawen make a very small minority in Kemahana, mainly consisting of aspiring merchants, almost 100% of which are Navajo.
 * 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, known simply as Kemahanan is used in non-formal conversation. Kemahanan is 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 and even iron weapons made, due to access to plentiful mines in Lepai-controlled territory.
 * Kemahanan Military
 * Infantry: 500 (3,500 reserves)
 * Archers: 300 (2,450 reserves)
 * Cavalry: 500 (1,800 reserves)
 * Kemahanan Ginimowin: The Ginimowin are specially trained troops tasked with internal security in Kemahana (a proto-police force). They deal with internal conflicts, civil disputes, and sporadic raids, as opposed to full-blown military ventures.
 * The Ginimowin currently have 250 personnel.
 * Wars and Conflicts: N/A
 * Diplomacy:
 * Akecheta: no pls go away eeeeee
 * Aztec Empire: ok so this big brain we have says you have a lot of gold and stuff, can we have trade? I can give you fast animals and sharper pointy sticks.
 * Events: 
 * Fuckers Stole My Gold, Can't Have Shit In Kemahana: With the recent raids by Akecheta's Kickapoo horse lords, the military ordered to partially mobilize and station themselves in frontier areas, and around 100 Ginimowin forces are sent to the western frontier to supplement the military efforts. Meanwhile, leaders, both local and national, are investing into defenses, with many cities building walls and palisades and digging trenches and moats on their outskirts. Some more... outlandish proposals even call for a wall encircling the entire country.
 * Someone Wants Revenge...: Among all the outraged voices following the raids by Akecheta's horse lords is an extraordinarily loud and belligerent voice. Wokoto Saashiil, half-Powhatan, half-Comanche, and a general in the Kemahanan army, argues that what the raiders have done is unforgivable, and that our troops should take the battle to Akecheta's home turf. Although Weroance Sikawkanna is yet to authorize such a move, Wokoto Saashiil and his message is slowly gaining influence in the palaces and high courts of the nation, and with every day, more and more people are out for blood...
 * Military Reforms (Horses Are Cool Or Something): In preparation for his grand counter-strike against the perfidious Kickapoo, General Wokoto Saashiil, embracing his nomadic Comanche horse-wrangling side, has decided to begin fighting fire with fire. He has begun training his regiments in combat on horseback, analyzing Kickapoo tactics and supplementing them with his own prior experience and intelligence to create a beat that Akecheta's hordes (hopefully) won't be able to best. Wokoto's horseback archery has begun to spread past his regiments, and although it will take time to bring the Kemahanan army up to speed, we can rest assured that tactics are being overhauled at least.
 * Southern Strongman: Hisinami Atigishaa, the main leader of the Ginisipi Expedition, has begun to grow entrenched in the southern territories of Kemahana. Setting up shop in the newly-founded trading post of Wakiigi along with some disgruntled merchants looking for new gold, Hisinami is convinced that the key to Kemahana's continued prosperity is towards the deserts to the south. Over the past few years, he has tightened his grip over Wakiigi and its immediate environs, cultivating good relations with local chieftains, settling disputes, and sparking economic growth in the area by opening up tin mines (finally freeing Kemahanan bronze production from the mines of Lepai).
 * Trade With The Aztec: In early 1443, Atigishaa and his cabal of merchants would set off on the Great Southern Expedition; a journey to the heart of the Aztec Empire itself. Bringing along horses, livestock, and weapons of bronze and iron, Atigishaa would attempt to strike up trade deals with Aztec officials along the way, offering superior weapons and beasts of burden for precious metals like gold and silver. Upon arriving in Titlan in the summer of 1444, Atigishaa would request an audience with the Huey Tlatoani of the Aztec Empire himself, promising the Tlatoani a reliable supply of bronze and iron weapons, as well as introducing horses to the Aztecs, in exchange for a cut in the profits of Aztec mines.