But, like any world city, it teems with influences that have nothing uniquely to do with the native character.

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Miss Piggy and Kermit get to be the A-story every week, which makes sense because they're the money Muppets, but doesn't always set the best of tones because frenzied Piggy and surly Kermit are not necessarily native incarnations of either character.

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For Hutchinson, a character with a native background was the perfect avatar for the player to view the war unfolding.

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Having a lead character that was of Native American descent let me delve into an original world of traditional instruments as well as percussive chanting, helping to create a new layer of storytelling within the game.

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Let's set your "locale, " which is the general character set used by your native language.

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The story revolves around encounters between the Spanish colonial authorities and native Americans, represented particularly by the central character.

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Because the main character, Connor Kenway, is of mixed heritage (half American Indian, half British), he also looked into the Native American culture from that time to help develop the character.

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Meaning corn flower in Urdu, the native language of the region, Gul Makai is a name taken from a character in a Pashtun folk story.

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