Nunnehi
The Nunnehi are a kind of Fae who originally shared the culture of the indiginous peoples of North America. Although the Nunnehi are immigrants to the Resurgent Dream, originally settling on the island only after the Homecoming War, they insisted on living in relative isolation and in accordance with their pre-Columbian way of life, not only in culture and religion but also in technology. Because of this, the Nunnehi find themselves in an equivalent position with the Menehune, struggling to preserve their way of life while also integrating with the other peoples of the Resurgent Dream and partaking in the Danaan way of life. Unlike the Menehune, the Nunnehi lack the practical advantage of a full state dominated by their culture as well as the moral advantage of having been here first.
The Nunnehi Nation, legally viewed as a corporation which is not publically traded and in which every Nunnehi owns an equal stock which can neither be sold of transferred, owns a large territory in Shieldcrest where Nunnehi and no few humans of Amerindian stock live as they did in pre-Columbian times. The Nunnehi Nation is not strictly limited to those who are ethnically Nunnehi or Amerindian. Anyone may be initiated into their way of life and afterwords be considered as Nunnehi as any other. Most Danaans tend to view these Nunnehi as rl Americans view the Amish. They respect their dedication to their beliefs, even in the face of the enormous temptation of modern technology, but they still politely yet strongly disagree with those same views.
Most Nunnehi do not live on the Nation lands in Shieldcrest but are more integrated into the mainstream of Danaan society. Most Nunnehi either live in predominantly Nunnehi communities, people keep to the customs and beliefs of their ancestors but share the mode of production, means of production, and relations of production as the rest of the Danaan High Kingdom. It is in these communities that Nunnehi ethnic nationalists are most common. Other individual Nunnehi live in communities where they are the only or one of very few Nunnehi. These Nunnehi respect where they have come from, as Danaans of all races do, but do not frequently view themselves as separate from the rest of Danaan society.
