20% of US population Native American

What kind of changes would we have to make in history to make 20% of the 2007 US population (nearly) 100% native american? Id prefer not to have really independent native american states in the north american continent (barring "mega-reservations"). Would reservations really exist for that matter? What would the effect on US politics be? The Vietnam war? Any war for that matter? What about media and music?

Somehow avoid Indian Removal starting with the Cherokee in Georgia, and allow that to establish a precedence for Native assimilation to colonial culture.
 
just have the deadly diseases introduced earlier (via Basque fishermen in the 1200s or something), and more Amerindians will survive, maybe enough.

There's evidence that there was a mass plague in the 1100's, probably introduced by the Norse. The thing is, without constant exposure to those plagues, the descendents of those Indians who survived have no more immunities.
 
There's evidence that there was a mass plague in the 1100's, probably introduced by the Norse. The thing is, without constant exposure to those plagues, the descendents of those Indians who survived have no more immunities.

Never heard that before. More information please.
 
In a sense, we're close if you look at it in a different way...

2005 census Latinos were 14.4%.

Mestizos have half native american blood in them -- that is 7.2%.

American indians comprise 1%. Native hawaiians, .2%.

We're at 8.4% already!

John
Former USAF
www.realmilitaryflix.com

What kind of changes would we have to make in history to make 20% of the 2007 US population (nearly) 100% native american? Id prefer not to have really independent native american states in the north american continent (barring "mega-reservations"). Would reservations really exist for that matter? What would the effect on US politics be? The Vietnam war? Any war for that matter? What about media and music?
 
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