I am going to be using a native american tribe as part for my fiction manuscript but I cant find what I am looking for in real histories from my research. I didn't want to desecrate one by just adding on to their culture and be a hated author just using them for my own benefit. So I want to build a culture with similarities to the known nations and use that one instead.
I have been in contact with a dear friend who has been working on his own fictional language and culture and he recommended I post something here and I would acquire some guidance as to what to do to start, since he doesn't remember much of what he did at the beginning.
I am reading much about the cultures in the area I have chosen to place my fictional tribe and now I am branching to others, gathering information and further increasing on filling blanks with my own thoughts.
any other guidance and research options you could offer? I am basically open to just about anything.
I have been in contact with a dear friend who has been working on his own fictional language and culture and he recommended I post something here and I would acquire some guidance as to what to do to start, since he doesn't remember much of what he did at the beginning.
I am reading much about the cultures in the area I have chosen to place my fictional tribe and now I am branching to others, gathering information and further increasing on filling blanks with my own thoughts.
any other guidance and research options you could offer? I am basically open to just about anything.