A Culturally Native US?

Your challenge if you choose to accept it, with a POD after the Revolutionary War, create a scenario in which the United States has gone through a major cultural shift and now sees itself as the successor of either a single Native American nation or a collection of native nations.
 
Hmm. If by "PoD after the Revolutionary War" you mean "PoD after the very start of the Revolutionary War", then one possibility might be for the Haudonosaunee Confederacy to align with the rebels in the Revolutionary War rather than with the British. The Confederacy would become the 14th U.S. state upon the creation of the Union.

Not sure how likely this is though.
 
Mexico has taken on elements of Aztec culture or adopted some elements as the apparent successor to that civilization. If the US had a more mestizo or metis like population then there might be something to that.
 
Look at Paraguay and Gurani revitalization.

Don't force the "five civilized tribes" to leave the southeast. Respect treaties the British and Dutch did not in the East Coast. Actively encouraged mixing and legitimize American elite by marriage with "tribal royalty" regionalizing particular powerful chieftains and then mix amongst each other for supra-indigienity of sorts.

Oh and the results will likely be just really, really whitened people claiming indigenous ties while still actively colonizing and marginalizing tribes further West.

I'm basically just reiterating the FFV which is OTL.
 

Vuru

Banned
The thing is, the USA has no native "empire" like Mexico had the aztecs at the time of formation
 
Countries with strong native cultures like Mexico, Peru, Paraguay and Bolivia have large mestizo and native populations. Bolivia in particular has the largest Amerindian population if I'm not mistaken. By the time the 13 Colonies started to agitate for independence, native numbers in North America were way too small to have a major mestizo population, let alone native majorities. When/if mass inmigration starts, it would become an even lower proportion

You could have a massive push by the Founding Fathers to adopt native culture in government (like they considered themselves heirs of the Greco-roman tradition in many cases) but it's unlikely to be very accepted by the populace; in fact many colonists were hostile to the natives and wanted the revolutionary government to allow them to settle native land which it eventually did. Even if sucessful it would be native culture as seen by the lenses of European colonists. You could have a more vibrant mestizo culture in the US (though I'm not certain how), but they would never amount as a strong segment of the population like in Latin American countries. It might be possible to have the Civilized Tribes to reach an elite status and be dissproportionately influential in US culture and politics, but I'm not sure how and it's not very probable. After the 1700s I'm not sure it is possible, with the constant wars against Native Americans and Manifest Destiny adopted widely through society.
 
Countries with strong native cultures like Mexico, Peru, Paraguay and Bolivia have large mestizo and native populations. Bolivia in particular has the largest Amerindian population if I'm not mistaken. By the time the 13 Colonies started to agitate for independence, native numbers in North America were way too small to have a major mestizo population, let alone native majorities. When/if mass inmigration starts, it would become an even lower proportion

You could have a massive push by the Founding Fathers to adopt native culture in government (like they considered themselves heirs of the Greco-roman tradition in many cases) but it's unlikely to be very accepted by the populace; in fact many colonists were hostile to the natives and wanted the revolutionary government to allow them to settle native land which it eventually did. Even if sucessful it would be native culture as seen by the lenses of European colonists. You could have a more vibrant mestizo culture in the US (though I'm not certain how), but they would never amount as a strong segment of the population like in Latin American countries. It might be possible to have the Civilized Tribes to reach an elite status and be dissproportionately influential in US culture and politics, but I'm not sure how and it's not very probable. After the 1700s I'm not sure it is possible, with the constant wars against Native Americans and Manifest Destiny adopted widely through society.

Reminds me of Metis culture in Canada but the impact on canadian society is even less as a whole than first nations or full aboriginal canadians.
 

missouribob

Banned
The best you could do is the full on assimilation of Native Americans and have them considered white. I'm not quite sure how to end up at that point though I think it is possible.
 
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