"Yes, and they did, but this whole 'great medicine wheel' stuff? That didn't come until it was too late. The tribes of the Nunnhi, like the tribes of Native Americana, warred with each other. THey had politics, they intrigued with the best of them. Why in Willows the Cherokee invited the Catawba to move in to use as a buffer state, but generations later that would turn into a new source of enemies and so on. A lot of times when we call the stranger a savage, it's either to find someone to look down on so we don't have to keep working on improving ourselves and going up which takes self awareness of our flaws AND work, or because there is something they've done that is uncomfortably mirror like and we'd prefer to deny. My point is though, they weren't united as one, they were quarralsome, kind of like western kithain were before the sidhe united them in the before time. By the time the exploration into the new world started, the western commoner kiths, even without sidhe, were used to working together. The Nunnehi? They were not. ANd by the time they learned? too late."