What has the US done to reconcile with Native Americans up to the present?
The relationship between the different Native American and Alaska Native tribes with the US government is a controversial subject in the United States in TTL.
In TTL, there was a harsh conflict in Sequoyah during the interwar period, as the US authorities encouraged a wave of settlers into the former Confederate state. The Native American tribes in Sequoyah had been firmly allied with the CSA, and were viewed with hostility and suspicion by the US authorities after the state reverted to US control in 1917. Sequoyah also saw violence against the US authorities during the Second Great War, although not to the extent as Utah or Occupied Canada. Anti-US violence largely subsided in Sequoyah after the end of the SGW, with the total defeat of the CSA.
The fact that the Native Americans in Sequoyah had been public Confederate loyalists under US rule in 1917-1944 did little to gain those particular tribes sympathy from the US public during the first postwar generation.
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In 2021, the overall situation of the Native Americans in the USA is somewhat better in comparison to OTL, in terms of economic well-being. During the Humphrey administration, the US government finally began to address long-standing socio-economic problems faced by the Native American population. In the 1980s, the Reynolds administration encouraged efforts by different Native American and Alaska Native tribes to preserve their respective languages and cultures. Reynolds also lent his personal support to the creation of the state of Nunavut out of the old Northwest Territories, although Nunavut was only admitted to to the Union in 1989. In 2021, Native Americans and Alaska Natives serve in the US military at the same rate as the rest of the population.
In spite of the overall better economic situation for Native Americans in TTL in comparison to our world, dealing with the historical experience of the different Native Americans is if anything more polarized compared to our world, which is not made easier by the reality of past conflicts. For example, from what I recall of the series, the US military response to hostile Native American tribes in the late 19th Century was harsher in comparison to our world; there is also the legacy of conflict in interwar and wartime Sequoyah. In 2021, there has not really been a coming to terms in US society with how the Native Americans were treated historically.
There was a fierce debate in US academic circles, beginning in the 1970s, if the historical policies of the US government towards the Native Americans were comparable at all to what occurred in the CSA during the Destruction. There is an unfortunate tendency (by no means universal) in some areas of US academia and from some popular writers to project
all negative or problematic aspects of US history on the former CSA, even in 2021.
In 2021, most US citizens will react with anger at any comparison between the historical treatment of the Native Americans in the United States and what occurred in the former CSA during the Destruction.