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This is an article listing various points of divergence related to Native American cultures, i.e. the native, pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas (from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego).

The article is a compilation of POD discussions already listed elsewhere on the wiki, and serves mainly to centralise them in one place, in addition to the specialised articles they already appear in. This is done mainly to make things easier for people interested in Native American PODs, avoiding the need to search through many different articles to find the specific POD discussions.

Please do not delete the PODs listed here from the articles they already appeared in. The article is meant to provide greater ease of use, but isn't meant to be an exclusive place for these PODs.

• Discusson on an empty America
• WI: Native Americans never crossed over from Asia
• DBWI: The Clovis people survived ? (DBWI about the Clovis culture ending prematurely)
• Plausibility check: America not discovered for another 500 years ?
• The outcome of Native Americans not being discovered
• Threads about California natives ?
• How to advance pre-Columbian America ?
• Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them.

• Challenge: Agriculture spreads beyond American Southwest
• Why didn't civilization develop along the Mississippi ?
• Mexican Mound-builders, Mississippian Ziggurats
• WI: No Mississippian Culture implosion
• Farming Californian Natives
• Agriculture and domestication among advancements in the Pacific Northwest cultures
• Dead end domestications ?
• Cool potential domestications
• Discussion on different evolution or possible domestication of North American megafauna
• Native American animal domestication
• Plausibility check: Domestication of American species
• Plausibility check: Large domestic animals in the Americas ?
• Could domestic animals have saved the American peoples from devastation ?
• Challenge: Guinea pigs (cavis) still raised primarily as food animals
• Horses surviving in America (1)
• Horses surviving in America (2)
• Horses surviving in America (3)
• Horses surviving in America (4)
• Horses surviving in America (5)
• Horses or camels surviving in America
• Plausibility check: Amerind ancestors learn to tame American horse species
• Clovis culture not hunting Western (American) Camel, possible domestication ?
• Llama cavalry ?
• Llama survives in Mexico post-Pleistocene
• Challenge: Tame the American Bison
• WI the American Bison was domesticated ?
• Native American domestication of the buffalo (American Bison) ?
• What if Native Americans domesticated beasts Of burden ?
• WI: Norse brought horses to America
• What Old World crops and livestock could have done New World civilization the most good ?
• WI Plains Indians had sheep in addition to horses ?
• Domestication of bears ?
• Bear cavalry ?
• Domesticated crocodiles or alligators ?
• Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them.

• Epidemiological PODs
• Plausibility check: Domesticated animals and disease
• Could domestic animals have saved the American peoples from devastation ?
• WI: Vikings bring Smallpox/other disease to new world settlements ?
• WI: The Vinland Pandemic
• WI European diseases spread to the New World during the Dark Ages ?
• Greater Amerindian immunity to Old World diseases ?
• Effective ways to prevent Old World diseases from killing so many Native Americans ?
• WI more advanced Native American populations on contact but disease is still there ?
• Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them.

• A Pre-Columbian Era supervolcano eruption ?
• No Classic Mesoamerican Collapse
• WI: No Mississippian Culture implosion
• Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them.

• The Stone Age continues
• Arsenic Bronze Age
• What prevented the rise of Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations in the Americas ?
• Bronze Age Americans
• New World picks up metallurgy earlier ?
• How to create a Great Lakes region Bronze Age civilization before the Viking visit to Vinland in 1000 AD ?
• Bronze age advanced weaponry
• If Native Americans had Bronze Age or Iron Age weaponry, what would it look like ?
• Plausibility check: Transition from bronze to iron in the Americas
• When did Native Americans adopt iron working ?
• Iron metallurgy in the Americas ?
• Plausibility check: Iron-aging New World civilizations
• Pre-Columbian Iron or Steel
• Why didn't the Andean civilizations enter the Iron Age ?
• Incan Iron
• Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them.

• How would the wheel change the Americas ?
• Reindeer/caribou sled vs dog sled ?
• Why didn't urban Native American cultures move particularly far north ?
• Ideas about more developed medieval era Amerindian civilizations
• WI: Inuits in Northern Canada developed Pykrete in the 1200s ?
• Challenge: American natives technologically even with Europeans by the 15th century AD
• What would it take for Native American civilizations to be on par with the Old World ?
• The bow and arrow never develops
• Alternate projectile weapons
• Better Aztec bows
• Was archery abandoned too soon ?
• Plausibility check: Rifled arrows ?
• Plausibility check: Native Americans developing crossbows (and their spread in the New World)
• An alternative technology to guns ?
• Plausibility check: Wooden guns
• Weirdest plausible firearms
• How well could native Americans reverse engineer European innovations ?
• Challenge: American frontiersmen use longbows as well as muskets/rifles
• WI: Amerindian guncotton
• Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them.

• Discussion on more advanced Native Americans (1)
• Discussion on more advanced Native Americans (2)
• Ideas about more developed medieval era Amerindian civilizations
• Discussion on a more advanced native civilisation in the Pacific Northwest
• Amerindian Middle Ages
• Pre-Columbian New World naval powers: When, who, where, and how ?
• Challenge: Pre-Columbian discovery of the Old World by the Native Americans
• Challenge: A seafaring culture like the Vikings in southern Chile
• Challenge: Native American Nation
• Contact between the Aztecs and the Incas
• Challenge: Equip a North American Native American tribe or nation with the right stuff
• Would it be likely to have a stronger native population in the US ?
• WI: North American Native Nations
• Challenge: Surviving Native American state on the West Coast
• WI the Greenlandic Norse adapt and adopt Inuit culture ?
• Limited Colonization in the Americas
• Plausibility check: European colonization of the Americas runs into problems
• Colonizing America is Hard
• WI Aztecs pushed Cortez out ?
• Challenge: The Aztec and Inca empires survive
• WI: Surviving Muisca civilization
• WI: A Comanche Genghis Khan
• Challenge: Native Americans "pull an Iwakura"
• Iroquois Nation ?
• How could the Iroquois survive to become a US state ?
• WI: Larger and more successful Sioux Uprising in 1862
• Native Americans as landlords for white settlers
• Plausible size of an "Indian Barrier State" established on the Great Lakes, as per OTL British plan ?
• Which Indian tribes would be good candidates to become states ?
• WI: "Indian Territory" further east
• Plausibility check: A Native American "Easter Rising" in 1918 ?
• Challenge: Create Native American Mobsters
• Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them.

• The Navajo Nation gets ISOT to 1836
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There have been a fair few Native American timelines, major and minor, throughout AH.com's history and the history of the online AH community in general. Here's an alphabetically sorted list of some notable timelines.

• Anahuatlacanco: The Land Between the Waters, Land of the Nahuatlaca by Cuāuhtemōc
• Bronze Age New World by Doug Muir (originally developed at soc.history.what-if)
• Bronze Age New World 2.0 by Hnau
• Bronze Age New World : Empires of the Steppe by ChugachMtnBlues
• Bronze Age New World Alaska by ChugachMtnBlues
• Children of the Sun by othyrsyde
• The Count of Years (Land of Turkey and Deer) by 9 Fanged Hummingbird
• Deganawatha: The Haudenosaunee Imperium by Prime Minister
• Empires on the Ohio by General Finley
• Guns of the Tawantinsuya by robertp6165
• Horses of Turtle Island by Domoviye
• Land of Salmon and Totems by King of Malta
• Lands of Bronze and Fire by Huehuecoyotl
• Lands of Ice and Mice: An Alternate History of Thule by DValdron and DirtyCommie
• Mississippi Rice by tormsen
• Pecari Rex, Equus Regina: American Domesticates by twovultures
• Swords of the Iroquois by smjb

Useful resources about native cultures worldwide

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