List of peoples of Cusinaut: Difference between revisions

{{term |1=Acuera}}

{{defn |1=The Acuera are a stateless, seminomadic people living on the northern fringe of [[Cusinaut]] and the Boreal Zone. They number at about thirty thousand people. They first travelled to the area from the south in the 3rd Century BC. During the existence of the [[Northern Confereration]] and its successor, [[Algoquon]]a, a large portion of the Acuera people worked for both states as pathfinders and skirmishers, and this is reflected in their marginalization as a people outside of those few living in the [[Algosh Republic]].}}

{{term |1=Ashkenauk}}

{{defn |1=The Ashkenauk are a people native to north-central [[Cusinaut]] and are the primary population of [[Ashkenang]]. They number at roughly eighteen million persons, which is split between the Toposa Ashkenauk, Yanota Ashkenauk, Atakapa Ashkenauk, and Mishauk tribes. The Toposa live near the border of [[Maloka]] and [[Sabnaki]], the Yanota and Atakapa in the heartland, and the Mishauk on the fringes in the north and west. They are unified by a common dialect and ancestry, and were one of the predominant peoples in the Northern Confederation. Ashkenauk polities are reliant on mass politics and more centrally organized than most of their sedentary neighbors (aside from the Algosh), and their form of [[M'acunism]] emphasizes the sacrifice of part of their food to household Kānenaka and local spirits. Unlike other traditions, the Ashkenauk burn their offerings in ceremonial square pits lined with brick and pour the ashes into rivers instead of bloodletting. Large sacrifices are seen as ostentatious bragging, while consistent small offerings are taken as humble and honest.}}

{{term |1=Canandaigua}}

{{defn |1=The Canandaigua are a constituent people of [[New Yustona]] and number about 450,000 people. They are closely related to the Gowandis people, and are unique among peoples of [[Cusinaut]] in not having what is considered to be a "senior branch"; oral tradition and archaeology speak of what is known as a "great split", cleaving a single people into two similarly sized groups rather than having an offshoot of one people from another as is common in [[Cusinaut]]. This split is thought to have occurred in the 1400s or as late as the 1560s and is traditionally ascribed to a difference in [[M%27acunism#Ancestral_worship|Kānenaka]]. Unlike other Kānenaka-related splits, traditions say that the two figures each side recognize were brothers and great heroes who fought the Algosh. Despite shared heritage and cultural mores, the split have created a historical rivalry between the two groups which has seen major conflict erupt between them, even during the period of the relative peace of the Northern Confederation. These borders between these two peoples has shifted consistently shifted as both sides have vied for good agricultural lands and hunting territory. The Canandaigua lands sit on the coast north of the Honeoye, but unlike their southern neighbors they do not have a strong maritime tradition and their territory is relatively undeveloped.}}