Khaltajazec people

The Khaltajazec people are an Aritonesian indigenous peoples that originated from central Aritonesia. About 1.5 million of them live in El Kadsre, Neon District, Vicnora and Narthernee. Originally one of the dominant ethnic groups in Aritonesia, they were persecuted during the times of the Conquest of Aritonesia and the Vlokozu Union, but eventually recovered in the intermin between these two periods and afterwards. They speak the Khaltajazec language and follow their folk religion.

Prehistory (1500 BC - 1831 AD)
The Khaltajazec peoples ethnic origin consists of Native American and of East/North Asian admixture (59% Uto-Aztecan and Quechumaran and 41% Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic); they are descendants of a group of Proto-Inuit settlers with almost complete Iñupiat and Paleo-Asiatic ancestry from southern Ellesmere Island who lived in what is now the settlement of Grise Fiord who migrated south after a volcano destroyed their settlement, becoming parts of many Central and South American civillizations after travelling through the subcontinent and the Andes. They reached what would later be the capital city of Neon District, Shiguto City, in 1500 BC, and established 4 citystates around a lake (which is now drained), before these 4 citystates united to form a full monarchy in 307 AD. This empire ended up taking control of all of the territory of modern-day Neon District and the West El Kadsreian State. The capital of the Khaltajazec Empire, Hākāntıtḷān (now Shiguto City in Neon District), was a megacity and the biggest in the region until the growth of Tugaganda, and at its peak in 1829 had over 500 thousand people. The Khaltajazecs were formerly based around agriculture, controlling large quantities of rice, tea and coffee plantations, before learning varying degrees of knowledge of engineering, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, writing, physics, medicine, planting and irrigation, geology, mining, metallurgy, sculpture, and gold smithing. The rule of the empire came to an end in 1831 AD, when British, Tokugawan and Spanish forces invaded Hākāntıtḷān and exiled the royal family.

Colonial times (1831 - 1850)
After the empire fell, the territory was reduced to the New North Wales Multicolony Area, an area the size of modern-day Neon District divided into British, Tokugawan and Spanish subdivisons. The Khaltajazec peoples were discriminated against the Europeans and the Japanese because they were "different"; for having a different skin color, speaking a different language, following another religion or simply for being indigenous. Many Khaltajazecs and their tribes were slaves or were publicly segregated, and recieved no education at all. Many Khaltajazec villages were burnt to the ground and/or the people genocided, and many of them fled north to Narthernee and south-east to Vicnora. By the time colonial rule in their area was over, only a handful of them (75,000) were left.

Media
Khaltajazecs had representation in the media starting with an indigenous radio station set up by NDRB of Neon District in 1945. An exclusive television station for the Khaltajazec-speaking people was set up in TBA in 1966, and modern NRTN channels have audio tracks in the language, aswell as news aimed at the indigenous population.

However, in El Kadsre, things were different. In East and West El Kadsre there was Chınchāy Rādıotlān (EEK) and TBA (WEK), but after the Vlokozu Union was formed, they both shut down on December 30th due to budget issues. Once industrialization in rural, indigenous-majority areas began, and indigenous revolts against the Vlokist government began, eventually forming the Khaltajazec Front for Liberation, a militant groups fighting for 100% full autonomy and the end of anti-indigenism in the union. A KFL-owned television station, LWK72-TV (repeater stations in EK use a J - N followed by a region-specific code and then a random number), later Public Radio and Television, disguised as a repeater for Vlokozu Television, broadcasted programs in the Khaltajazec language, and later became legally operated and owned by the subnational Khaltajazec monarchy. WRT is famous for having one of the worst on-screen logos in Aritonesia of all time during 1995 - 1996; from 1989 - 1995, a digitally animated station ID and cel-animated with digital elements (1989 - 1992)/2D CGI (1992 - 1993) sign-on/sign-off was used, succeded by a choppy, obvilously chroma keyed ident with copyrighted (albeit absolutely fire) music and absolutely terrible CGI. This ident was not as commonly used as some better ones and was only seen in a few areas, and is nearly extinct with only 3 recordings of it avaliable. It was then succeded by a better-looking ident with nicer CGI.

Politics
Unlike most indigenist/indigenous-dominated groups, Khaltajazecs do not prefer left-wing or socialist politics, rather preferring a center to center right ideology, sometimes even going as far as far-right (seen in the KFL militant group), much like the Indigenous Tribal Reformation Movement of Kuboia. Most Khaltajazec politicans are commonly nativist, feudalist, pro-monarchist, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, anti-socialist, anti-communist, anti-Vlokist, conserative and nationalist. There are two Khaltajazec-centered indigenist political parties in Neon District and El Kadsre, both center-right (formerly they were both far-right, with the one in EK splitting off from the KFL, and the one in ND was far-right during the times of Shizoku Shōsan's rule.). However, many Khaltajazec peoples are turning towards the left, becoming more progressive. There are 6 Khaltajazecs in the El Kadsreian Senate, with 3 of them Greens, 2 of them Nationals, and one of them as a member of the Kadsreius Legacy.