Ainu people

Teach me more of the Ainu people, Veeky Forums
What weapons did they use for war, in particular Shakushains rebellion?
What was the extent of cruelty enacted on them by what are now the modern Japanese people?
What were there initial interactions with foreigners like?
Post images of their bows, their people, their clothing and other cultural elements.
Discuss the theory that they could have been an offshoot of Australian Aboriginal that I heard on here before.

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Even now ainu in Japan pretend to be japanese to avoid ostracism

They are Japanese ethnically.

Japanese = Yamato
Yamato = Yoyoi + Jomon people

Why do some of them look Caucasoid anyway?

Their dames are schifuzzas.

They don't

>They don't

Where do you guys find stuff like this?
Ainu have more Jomon in them(though not as much as Emishi)and they also have some Eurasian(from small Siberian tribe) admixture.

The emishi(ainus which lived in mainland Honshu) used horse archers in times of war against the Yamato japs and were initially successful in defeating them. They were a tribal Iron Age people which practiced some farming(of barley) and hunting and gathering which made them less populous than the rice eaters(japs). They also had sick beards and hair which gave them aesthetic looks. When the Yamato began conquering jomon lands in both Kyushu and Honshu they typically resisted for a while but were eventually defeated.

Emishi=/= Ainu necessarily.
emishi-ezo.net/emishi_anthro.html
They are more Jomon than the Ainu for starters, the latter which also have some Eurasian in them.
They're culture was pretty similar though apparently. Their culture was a proto Ainu if that is what you meant.
I heard some Emishi actually joined the Yamato at the end of the conflict. Hence, Japs that live in northern Honshu have some Emishi ancestry like his guy.