Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if the United States was never colonized? What if the Europeans were driven away by Native people?

Yesterday, I posted about how disappointing this season of Marvel’s “What If …?” (on Disney+) has been so far. Then last night I watched the new episode, “What If … Kahhori Reshaped the World?” In it, a young Mohawk woman finds a lake that contains the Tesseract, aka the Space Stone (from the Avengers movies).

Kahhori is not in the Marvel comics. She’s a brand new character, created by writer Ryan Little, who spent four years creating the episode, researching the Mohawk people so he could get every detail right – right down to the tattoos and the baskets.

Little worked with a Mohawk language expert, Cecilia King, for the episode, in which the characters speak Mohawk. There are English subtitles.

Doug George-Kanentiio, an Akwesasne Mohawk and historian, was the cultural adviser. In a recent NPR interview, he discussed the stereotypes of Native Americans in early comics, and in the media: “Those figures were angry and aggressive and, you know, had war paint on and were always in a state of conflict and warfare. And that wasn’t – you know, that kind of turns you off as a kid.”

In a recent post on X, Devery Jacobs, who voiced Kahhori, explained that she worked on the episode for three years. “Never did I think I’d be able to bring a character like this to life; few roles mean as much as this one,” she said.

I love the new character and am impressed with the amount of work that went into this. It’s the first time I’ve watched this show and wanted more of the story. I hope we will get to see more of Kahhori in future Marvel series and movies.

What did you think? Let me know in the comments or on my Facebook page!

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