I finally revisited Civilization 6 and won a Prince difficulty game!!

I chose the Cree leader Poundmaker, who I now know has a very low overall winrate in Steam's stats, most likely because his faction and leader abilities are pretty under-powered.

I tried to roleplay a highly diplomatic, trade and religion focused Civilization, avoiding war, dropping no nukes, and building no super-weapons.

Because of the early aggressive spread of my religion, which was called Moo 🐮, I was able to greatly increase my gold income and also purchase important culture units using Faith.

I ended up being the first and only Suzerain of about half the world's city-states. I spread across North America and then relied on diplomacy with City-States to maintain control of South America and a religious foothold in the Mediterranean (yes, I installed Moo as the dominant religion in Rome LOL)

What a thrilling play-through! Civ6 has greatly improved with all the DLC now available since the last time I played.

The victory for Poundmaker is called "Justice and Lasting Peace." Feels good :)

In real history, Poundmaker was a shrewd protector of the Cree people who was tried with treason by the Canadian state for killing Canadian state agents who were attempting to force his people off their land.

The Poundmaker Cree still exist to this day and recently won a posthumous symbolic pardon for Poundmaker from Justin Trudeau. The Canadian state now officially recognizes Poundmaker as a hero and protector of his people. Too little too late from the Canadian state, but the fact his people still persist as a coherent group is pretty incredible to me. Also look at this man's amazing drip: