What If America Was Never Colonized? | Alternate History

The American continents as we all know, prior to their colonial settlement by the European powers, had been home to numerous distinct indigenous tribes; a variety of peoples and cultures shaped by these diverse landscapes and climates, from the Iroquois of the Northeast, to the Dakota and Lakota Sioux of the Great Plains, from the Inuit of the frozen north, to the Mayans of tropical south, but while many of us have an IDEA of who these people were, rarely do we see the bigger picture of the American Continents’ early history, in great part because historic record had often been passed down through spoken fables for the majority of these cultures, while of the few who had developed and kept written records, most have been lost or destroyed by nature, tribal warfare, or the Spanish Inquisition. Additionally there was a great disconnect between this vast myriad of tribes, most especially those among the most advanced, leaving the image of pre-Columbian America a fragmental, and obscure one.

The arrival of the Europeans, despite the aggressive assimilation conducted by Spain, did allow for more thorough documenting, and cross-examining of native lore, most especially in the North, where conclusions were able to be drawn as to where tribes had originated from, what their historic interactions with one-another had been, and what the basis of their beliefs had been built upon. Yet despite this, as the native population was ravaged by disease, and overwhelmed in competition with superior European weaponry, technology, and…