Nativepunk Renegade

Why do you never see Native American steampunk? Is it because people are afraid or do they just consider the First Nations so backward technologically that it would be pointless to include them?

I took a different spin. This is my design for a female warrior from an Eastern Woodlands Tribe (probably Odawa, as they were the fiercest of the Three Fires). She's in a hit-and-run campaign against the army, who wants to build an airshipyard over her tribal grounds- so instead of adopting the technology, she's rebuking it. The roach on her head will have the traditional feathers and procupine quills, but also lengths of found wire.

The rifle's been refitted to be a round-headed warclub, her bustle/breechclout's made of canvas from an army rations wagon she decimated, and those things around her neck--- goggles. The right lenses were taken as a trophy of war (I'm not a fan of goggle, can you tell?). She is wearing wool tradecloth and silver accents though, which shows that she at least trades.

I'm so making this. And if anyone gives me any hassle, I'll either point to the research I did on the garments or sic my Potawatomie grandma on them.