A Native American CSA

In our timeline, the CSA ratified many treaties with the Native Americans in the Indian Territory. What if the CSA went further with this an used these treaties to help them gain victory?

Just what exactly would need to be done for the CSA to use the Native Americans to their advantage?
 
I think that you are never going to get 100% Native American support for the CSA. If nothing else, Natives would sign up with the Union for no better reason than an enemy tribe or political faction within a tribe had signed up with the CSA.

Beyond that, the CSA could make a variety of moves to get the tribes on their side-delivering material goods to the exiled tribes of the West (or the Plains tribes for that matter), promising an increase in the size of Indian territory, promising to limit westward settlement, and most extreme and unlikely to happen, promising a 'right of return' to the East for members of the 5 civilized tribes and other southern tribes exiled to Oklahoma.

Keep in mind that there was a strong anti-Native element in the CSA. Large parts of the state of Texas were basically locked into mutually destructive vendetta with the Comanche, and Texans had violently expelled Cherokee settlers from the state.
 
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