The year is 1425 and the first ship of Zeng He's massive expedition has made landfall in the OTL's Puget Sound, USA. The settlements that follow establish the Chinese as the "Discoverers of the Americas". The Confucian teachings instilled in these early explorers lead them to value cooperation with the native tribes as opposed to conquest. This cooperation leads to the rapid modernization of America's natives. Among these modern ideas were forging, mining and construction techniques, weaponry, military tactics, farming practices, and medical advancements (viral inoculation being key). Because of this massive divergence in timelines, the late 15th-century European explorers encountered exponentially different native cultures across the Americas than those of the OTL.
The task is to create a flag from this NEW New World. It can be a nation, a tribe, a city-state, a kingdom, or... whatever from 1500-Present.
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The Eagle Banner: The Haudenosaunee
Here's a flag for an expansive Iroquois Confederacy that forms an increasingly close alliance with a second Viking attempt at a Vinland settlement to better fortify themselves against those they consider uncivilized savages to their south and west. The Eagle Banner is a war flag combining the bald eagle common to the region, the Norse Raven Banner, and the tree and wampum belt of the Belt of Hiawatha. At their height the Haudenosaunee had ironfisted control of everything from the St. Lawrence seaway to the Great Lakes.
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Lenapè Achimulsëwakàn Kèkayëmhès (Lenapi Republican Government)
An interesting Earth from universe Kappa-94-Up-Purple in the Chinese chronosector has the fleets of Zheng He bring eastern Eurasian culture and technology to the Americas before the western Eurasians had in our own universe. This discovery would also have the effect of China sending out more fleets, not just across the Pacific, but into the Indian Ocean as well. Here they would establish trading sites within the local nations. This would have the effect of holding off the Europeans from traveling to the Americas until 1534 by our chrono calendar. Since it was much easier to conduct trade with eastern Eurasia at the trading centers established in the Red Sea, especially in the Sinai region of Egypt at this time period.
Meanwhile, this meant the Native American Peoples, to be called the Yǔshaan Peoples as many Chinese came to believe the lands they discovered were the castaways from the Time of the Great Floods, were left to their own devices for the most part. Chinese traders, soldiers, and monks would come to the western coast of Yǔshaan spreading new ideas and goods to the native Yǔshaan Peoples. While medical technology of the time would spread throughout the continent, it was not as fast as the spread of diseases they brought over from eastern Eurasia. What did help was the Eastern Eurasians did not immediately, or in any coherent fashion, colonize Yǔshaan. This gave the native Yǔshaan Peoples time to build up immunities. The more advanced medical knowledge of the Chinese would also greatly facilitate this.
One Yǔshaan nation that would benefit from this is the Lenapi Republican Government. The native Yǔshaan Peoples in the location of our Canadian Provinces were devastated by the diseases that were brought over by the Eastern Eurasians. This caused much strife between many of the tribes and nations of the area, with several moving south into the Haudenosaunee territory, who themselves were dealing with many of the same issues. Eventually these migrating northern Yǔshaan tribes would settle in the area of the Lenape. Which was good fortune for them as it was concurrent with the arrival of many monks, folk practioners, and Confucian scholars traveling the lands of Yǔshaan. These men provided the Lenape with better medical and agriculture knowledge, which helped the Lenape grow more food and the scholars helped to stop conflict between the Lenape and the migrating tribes…
Flag: The Lenapi Republican Government flag is based on the folk belief that a Confucian scholar, He Heawassanock, came to the Lenapi and taught them the concept of Qi, the belief of a vital force forming part of any living entity represented as a vapor or wind. To get this concept across, He used two arrows, a pipe, and an ear of xaskwim (maize) to form the traditional Chinese character for qi. As He told the story he merged it with the Lenape folk story of Kahesana Xaskwim, Mother Corn. The field is brown representing the earth spread upon the Turtle for the people to live upon. The flag has the qi formed by the items He used and is set in the center of the flag. On both the left and right sides of the flag are little kahesana xaskwim figures representing the growth of corn further placing forth the idea of the energy of life that is given by mothers.
The task is to create a flag from this NEW New World. It can be a nation, a tribe, a city-state, a kingdom, or... whatever from 1500-Present.
1
The Eagle Banner: The Haudenosaunee
Here's a flag for an expansive Iroquois Confederacy that forms an increasingly close alliance with a second Viking attempt at a Vinland settlement to better fortify themselves against those they consider uncivilized savages to their south and west. The Eagle Banner is a war flag combining the bald eagle common to the region, the Norse Raven Banner, and the tree and wampum belt of the Belt of Hiawatha. At their height the Haudenosaunee had ironfisted control of everything from the St. Lawrence seaway to the Great Lakes.
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Lenapè Achimulsëwakàn Kèkayëmhès (Lenapi Republican Government)
An interesting Earth from universe Kappa-94-Up-Purple in the Chinese chronosector has the fleets of Zheng He bring eastern Eurasian culture and technology to the Americas before the western Eurasians had in our own universe. This discovery would also have the effect of China sending out more fleets, not just across the Pacific, but into the Indian Ocean as well. Here they would establish trading sites within the local nations. This would have the effect of holding off the Europeans from traveling to the Americas until 1534 by our chrono calendar. Since it was much easier to conduct trade with eastern Eurasia at the trading centers established in the Red Sea, especially in the Sinai region of Egypt at this time period.
Meanwhile, this meant the Native American Peoples, to be called the Yǔshaan Peoples as many Chinese came to believe the lands they discovered were the castaways from the Time of the Great Floods, were left to their own devices for the most part. Chinese traders, soldiers, and monks would come to the western coast of Yǔshaan spreading new ideas and goods to the native Yǔshaan Peoples. While medical technology of the time would spread throughout the continent, it was not as fast as the spread of diseases they brought over from eastern Eurasia. What did help was the Eastern Eurasians did not immediately, or in any coherent fashion, colonize Yǔshaan. This gave the native Yǔshaan Peoples time to build up immunities. The more advanced medical knowledge of the Chinese would also greatly facilitate this.
One Yǔshaan nation that would benefit from this is the Lenapi Republican Government. The native Yǔshaan Peoples in the location of our Canadian Provinces were devastated by the diseases that were brought over by the Eastern Eurasians. This caused much strife between many of the tribes and nations of the area, with several moving south into the Haudenosaunee territory, who themselves were dealing with many of the same issues. Eventually these migrating northern Yǔshaan tribes would settle in the area of the Lenape. Which was good fortune for them as it was concurrent with the arrival of many monks, folk practioners, and Confucian scholars traveling the lands of Yǔshaan. These men provided the Lenape with better medical and agriculture knowledge, which helped the Lenape grow more food and the scholars helped to stop conflict between the Lenape and the migrating tribes…
Flag: The Lenapi Republican Government flag is based on the folk belief that a Confucian scholar, He Heawassanock, came to the Lenapi and taught them the concept of Qi, the belief of a vital force forming part of any living entity represented as a vapor or wind. To get this concept across, He used two arrows, a pipe, and an ear of xaskwim (maize) to form the traditional Chinese character for qi. As He told the story he merged it with the Lenape folk story of Kahesana Xaskwim, Mother Corn. The field is brown representing the earth spread upon the Turtle for the people to live upon. The flag has the qi formed by the items He used and is set in the center of the flag. On both the left and right sides of the flag are little kahesana xaskwim figures representing the growth of corn further placing forth the idea of the energy of life that is given by mothers.