Native Auxiliaries

==In game==
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===Overall strategy===
A highly flexible and adaptable class of medium warship, the Frigate is built as a rapid support ship, whilst carrying an ample amount of firepower on board for situations that need it. For this reason the Frigate is typically classified by little ornamentation and a low poop and forecastle to decrease drag.
===Unit summary===
*Weak musket infantry
====Notes====
Like Native Scouts this unit does not speak Haudenosaunee or Lakhóta; rather, its responses are best recorded in Cherokee.
==History==
When Europeans sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in the late 15th century CE, they encountered North America’s original inhabitants. While the more violent aspects of these "first encounters" between different peoples in the New World is often emphasised in our day, both groups of people nevertheless did engage in commerce. The most coveted trade items exported to Europe by settlers were furs, particularly beaver furs. The opportunity to trade with Europeans created greater competition and conflict among Native American communities. To facilitate their hunting, Europeans provided firearms and gunpowder. When these once-successful trade agreements failed, the two populations also contributed to violent hostilities. Native Americans ultimately became the enemy of European settlers, who did not see them as equals. On the other hand, the different nations of Europe feared and mistrusted one another as much as the many Native American tribes did with each other (and their newly arrived neighbours from across the Atlantic Ocean).
Regardless, the inflow of firearms and Native access to them could not be stemmed. When the English attempted to block Native Americans' access to guns in the 17th century, it was to no avail: ban or no ban, merchants were always willing to sell or trade guns to Native Americans, as long as the profits outweighed the risks. Native American tribes unfriendly to the English simply obtained new supplies for these guns from the Dutch (who themselves were engaged in hostilities against the English in the mid-17th century), thereby negating gun laws passed by the English.
One unforseen effect this had was that the Native Americans obtained some of the best firearms in the world at the time: the Dutch were after all the most eminent scientific and technological power in 17th century Europe. In just a few decades, many Native American tribes became highly proficient with the use of firearms and vigorously resorted them to pursue their interests and defend their political and economic autonomy. In the Tidewater region of Virginia, Powhatan warriors armed with guns came close to capturing English settlements in 1622 CE. During the French and Indian Wars a century later, both the British and French - the main belligerents of the conflict - sought to recruit Native American warriors to bolster and strengthen their own forces, whose line of battle tactics left them highly vulnerable to Native Americans armed with guns and a nous for bush warfare.
Ultimately however, the introduction of firearms to Native Americans would prove to be a disaster. No matter how much wampum or territory a chief could obtain either by trading guns or brandishing them, the fracticious nature of inter-tribal relations were only made worse: gun ownership meant that armed conflicts between the tribes become only more deadly, thereby making them participants in their own extinction. By the end of the Seven Years' War (1756–1763CE), Native Americans in the east of North America were effectively decimiated by years of intertribal rival and confrontations with the French and British colonial empires, thus leaving them vulnerable to further political pressure and assimilation, if not extermination.
===References===
*Malcolm, JL; To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right (1996); Harvard University Press
Category:Light infantry
Category:Auxiliaries