I think in this case, the rule of cool is more important than logic. Everyone associates the Inuit with igloos, so they should be incorporated somewhere in the design.
Ok then, a large igloo incorporated into the castle ruins 
(And perhaps a temple model if they ever make them unique for civs)
They’re already semi-unique. I thought that the Monastery could be based on one of those inuksuit, making it somewhat similar to the Tengri Monastery. Perhaps that one can have an igloo-like entrance as well. (Or the entrance is an inuksuk and the body is an igloo. That’d look better.)
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Yes, the wonder would be like the structure on the right in the photo above… and the castle, couldn’t it be an ice castle? lol…
Yes, it’s a good option…i like these ideas…
Yes, I still don’t think they’ll be brought together. The Iroquois and the Puebloans are hundreds of kilometers apart and from very different terrains… the Iroquois would use architecture similar to Goths and Celts, and the Puebloans one similar to Malians…
Well, that’s the most breathtaking option, but I figured it was too fantastical to be anything but goofy. That’s basically what the waterbender Fortresses would look like in an idea I’ve had for many years for an Avatar: The Last Airbender-themed AoE2 clone. In that setting, elaborate buildings made entirely of ice actually make sense.
The Feudal Age buildings could be based on wigwams, while the Castle Age buildings are based on Iroquois longhouses, and the Imperial Age buildings and Monastery are based on Mississippian mounds.
I figured the Feudal Age buildings could be made of adobe, while the Castle Age buildings look like they’re cut from cliffs, like the Anasazi cliff dwellings. I suppose the Imperial Age architecture would be the cliff dwellings, but fancier (it’s only a few buildings anyway).
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Yes, it would be very fanciful, but it was a good idea…
Yes, that’s a good idea…although I consider the Iroquois and Mississippians to be more different civilizations like Celts and Aztecs…
Yes, it’s quite a topic…
Stone is needed for castle and fortifications,if you are forced to use stone for housing you wont survive long.
Mounds look distinct from what we associate with Iroquois architecture of later centuries, but before the population collapse they were actually quite spread out due to the far reach of Mississippian influences.
Culture groups like Monongahela (Iroquoian) and Fort Ancient (probably Algonquian, though it’s not certain whether originally built by Algonquians or settled by them after the fact) all built mottes for defense and mounds for ceremonial purposes; only when European diseases decimated the population, they “reverted” to simpler social structure.
Ah, I see. Yes, perhaps the Iroquois/Algonquian peoples could have been Mississippians before 1142, since the Mississippians reached the Great Lakes…
I think just having an armed dog sled as untrainable unit and an ice hut as unbuildable building in the scenario editor and letting them appear in customized scenarios can represent the Inuits in a simplest way.
It might be a bit of a stereotype, but it allows for the most iconic content to be included in the game at the lowest cost and with the simplest workload, without the need for a full playable civ.
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IIRC (don’t quote me on that) the term “Mississippian”, while already a huge umbrella, is usually applied to the Southeast, and “Mound-builder” is used to refer to the wider cultural continuum stretching across the whole eastern coast and up to the Great Lake. There were Iroquoian and Algonquian mound-building cultures, but only those of them that reached the Southeast (Iroquoian Cherokee and Algonquian Kahokiaki, the latter eventually conquered/settled the former capital of Cahokia which previously was Siouan) are counted as Mississippian.
Yes, I think an Inuit civilization could be exclusive to Viking scenarios like Vinlandsaga and Kaselfni, and its unique units could include an Inuit spearman and the War Dog…
I know, but Mount Builder doesn’t sound like a civilization, it sounds more like an architectural set, that’s why I call them Mississippians and it encompasses the entire central and southeastern United States…