Native American

@EDG I agree:

"The United States government officially recognizes 562 tribes. In addition to those tribes that are recognized, hundreds of others have not yet achieved recognition."

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/native-american-tribes/

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-tribelist/

yea one of my tribes isnt recognized because our land is too valuable. Ohlone Indian via silcone valley, bay area CA

@EDG Do they have specific trigger words? Is it possible to see the list?

@youngroos82 Similar things happen all over. I was recently surprised that one of the tribes in the Seattle area was not recognized. Apparently, there's some dispute about what it means to be "officially recognized," and many are still holding to the principle that they need to be an independent nation.

@EDG Thank you to your efforts. It's a little homage to great people.

@EDG About the far west guns, this could help:

https://www.wildwestoriginals.com/product-category/collectible-firearms/all-weapons/

I see it more as giving them representation in a domain overwhelmingly dominated by white people—representation that, as far as I know, did not exist at all before EDG created this, other than what is in the base model. As for whether it's stealing their beauty, that's up to each individual who uses this lora and what they do with it. Creating the lora isn't exploitation, but using it in disrespectful ways would be.

Why do you pick on Europeans? Every people group on the planet has been equally cruel to other people groups throughout all of history. The various tribes of American Indians were fighting each other over territory and enslaving each other long before the Europeans ever arrived here. One of my ancestors was left an orphan as an infant when his parents were among the 400 settlers slaughtered by the Powhatan Indians in a surprise attack in 1644. The violence goes both directions. Tribes and kingdoms and nations have fought each other ever since Cain slew Abel back in the dawn of history. That is the nature of mankind.

@dita You make a very good point, thanks for the comment 👍

@rogueAI, Sure, but I don't think the Native Americans committed mass genocide on the same level as the Spanish or English did. Nor do their ancestors force them to live on tiny fractions of their land hundreds of years later. It would help if you read about the Landback movement and maybe get a different perspective.

@LightWay What exactly to you mean by "mass genocide". There were lots of fighting between the two sides, sometimes initiated by the English, sometimes initiated by the Indians, but nothing that I would call "mass genocide". I just did a quick Google search on Aztec blood sacrifices and found a web page stating that a Dr. Woodrow Borah, an authority on the demography of ancient Mexico at the University of California, Berkeley, has recently estimated that the Aztecs sacrificed 250,000 people (1% of their population) every year! I'm not saying Europeans are pure and innocent, but the American Indians are not pure and innocent either. I'm simply trying to be fair and even-handed rather than stacking up all the evidence on one side to support a political agenda while ignoring all of the evidence that doesn't support that view. Also, who's forcing anyone to stay on the reservations today? As far as I am aware, they can come join the rest of society any time they want to. Maybe they might not get all the benefits like a free home and monthly subsidies from the government for sitting around on the reservation doing nothing all day, but those handouts and living in the past are actually holding them back from reaching their full potential. If they put in the hard work and effort to pay their own way just like the rest of us have to do, they could prosper. Many do.

@LightWay Don't bother with him. A person raging against a show of compassion isn't going to bother showing you any ... Just sayin'. History is messy. We all live on stolen land. At one point, there were at least eight species of humans living in the world, but the others are all gone leaving just us sapiens. A person who can acknowledge the ugliness done to American Indians is a person that might try to prevent or rectify ugliness toward other humans along their way in life. Some people just don't have a conscience to be bothered by it. FWIW, the Indigenous Americans kicked Leif Erikson's Viking's back to Europe. They were no match at that time, and most folks consider the Vikings to be rather fierce enemies. :-) However, millions of Native Americans perished between that legendary moment and when Columbus made a similar trip. By then, they were no match for the Euros, who found all the abandoned cities to be baffling hints of great civilizations long past ...