{"id":5484,"date":"2015-12-09T11:25:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T16:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2015-12-09T11:27:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T16:27:13","slug":"chapter-12-page-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/5484\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 12 Page 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defiant Elk despairs at saving his nation on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/pages\/ch12\/pg4.php\">Chapter 12 Page 4<\/a>. He and the Kanonsionni are trapped by the frontier trade. If they turn their back on the goods offered by the colonists, they are weaker than their rivals. If they trade for\u00a0them, they have to give away\u00a0a part of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>In the real world, the council fires have not faded away entirely. The nations that I&#8217;m drawing inspiration from still exist. History has not been kind to them, due to\u00a0our nation&#8217;s policies and a legacy of indifference and\u00a0hostility. If you want to read about how the Iroquois handled\u00a0the issues that Elk is grappling with, I recommend<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Iroquois-Diplomacy-American-Frontier-Penguin\/dp\/0143115294\"> <em>Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier<\/em><\/a> by Timothy Shannon.<\/p>\n<p>For a preview of the next page, please <a href=\"http:\/\/topwebcomics.com\/vote\/11790\/default.aspx\">vote for Snow by Night<\/a> on Top Web Comics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defiant Elk despairs at saving his nation on Chapter 12 Page 4. He and the Kanonsionni are trapped by the frontier trade. If they turn their back on the goods offered by the colonists, they are weaker than their rivals. If they trade for\u00a0them, they have to give away\u00a0a part of themselves. In the real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}