What if the plans to make Indian Territory (present-day eastern Oklahoma) into the State of Sequoyah went ahead, rather than OTL's forced merging with Oklahoma?
What if the plans to make Indian Territory (present-day eastern Oklahoma) into the State of Sequoyah went ahead, rather than OTL's forced merging with Oklahoma?
The state would be Democratic (as was the rest of the south in the early 20th century). In fact, this is the main reason TR and the republicans did not support separate statehood for Indian and Oklahoma Territories. It would also be segregationist as well. Again, one needs to remember that the Five Nations were slaveholders and largely allied with the CSA during the civil war. They would have been just as resistant to full citizenship rights for blacks as other southern states - maybe even more so. Even today the Cherokee and Seminole Nations of Oklahoma have resisted granting full tribal citizenship to "freedmen" - former slaves held by tribal people.
Well, what about the black Seminoles ? I always thought that the Seminoles were far more accepting of blacks into their tribe given their hist with the Seminole Wars during the 1830s & 1840s...