If you are a non-Native and you take it upon yourself to write/draw/make/create anything that is influenced by “Indigenous culture” or in the genre of Indigneous-futurism, you have a lot of responsibility on your shoulders, a lot to learn, and a lot of people to talk to.

I’d begin by asking yourself why you feel that it is your place to make anything about Natives anyway? Why do you feel you have a right to make something about a culture that is not your own? What do you think you can do that actual living Indigenous people aren’t?

If you decide to continue...
Understand there is no pan-Indigenous culture, and making a fictional group of Natives where you cherry pick aspects of real nations that fit with your narrative is culturally insensitive and participates in erasure.

If you’re setting it in the future, and the only Indigenous nations left are the ones you create, you’re insinuating we have all been victims of a mass genocide or horrific event that erased us from the face of the earth.

If you’re basing your characters and their tribe on real nations - you’d better be consulting with members of those nations to ensure what you’re doing isn’t harmful, appropriative, insensitive, racist, or swathed in stereotypes.

Finally, if all of this seems like too much work, responsibility, or something you don’t “want” to do - just don’t make it. Drop the project and move on to something else.

Oops there is a spelling error. *Indigenous. Obviously.

Even though it looks like Igneous.