AH.com Challenge: Surviving NA Native American Nation

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is as follows:

1) Create a POD which creates a majority Native American nation in North America.

2) Ensure the survival of said nation to present day (2009).

Bonus Objectives

A) Nation exists in the territorial boundaries of present-day United States. (60 points)

B) Nation is not a puppet or client state; i.e. a fully independent nation. (75 points)

C) Make nation a major regional, continental, or world power (100, 200, 300 points respectively)



This one should give you a run for your money, especially if you go for the extras.
 
In 8592658394 B.C. An asteroid changes it's course in a galaxy far away.

1345 B.C. A large amount of asteroids and meteorites hit Earth, however, only in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America as well as the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic.

1178 B.C. The climat start to calm down in North America

872 B.C. The largest North American tribe is in Mesoamerica, it's stronger then any of the aborigine tribes and stronger then the shattered remains of humans in the Old World and south america, so you could say it's a world power...

2009 A.D. A ship sailning from the Caribbean accidentially discovers Africa. In America, civilizations have risen and fallen, uninterrupted by outsiders... Still, none of them is able to project power om other continents, but I suppose you could find a few regional powers...
 

Faraday Cage

Geronimo hammers out a treaty keeping his tribe's traditional mountain home with the US authorities, who simply want the guerrilla raids to finally stop so they can declare the West won; officially establishing the Apache Nation.

Although by the present day the Apache Nation has an open border policy, it's citizens still have their own separate AN citizenship and effectively control government of their technically independent nation; with US citizens living in their borders having to obey their laws (but the nature of those laws guaranteed to be acceptable to US policy by several treaties and simple tradition as well).
 
Instead of returning home to harvest the crops, the Mayan rebels in 1848 take the city of Merida and the Republic of Yucatan is usurped by the Mayans and is now a Mayan nation. Easiest PoD, surprised nobody else thought of it. Sure, it ain't in the US, but it was at least as likely as the OTL outcome. Once the Mayans consolidate their hold on the Yucatan the Mexicans are forced to recognize them or at least not attempt a take-over as they are already too weakened by the Mexican-American War, and the highly experienced and skilled Mayans are armed and supported by the British.
 
Tecumseh survives the battle of the Thames and continues to build his confederation, turning to the Sioux and other plains tribes, forming a formidable cavalry. They later align with the British and Canada and are able to hold the US at bay.
 
Instead of returning home to harvest the crops, the Mayan rebels in 1848 take the city of Merida and the Republic of Yucatan is usurped by the Mayans and is now a Mayan nation. Easiest PoD, surprised nobody else thought of it. Sure, it ain't in the US, but it was at least as likely as the OTL outcome. Once the Mayans consolidate their hold on the Yucatan the Mexicans are forced to recognize them or at least not attempt a take-over as they are already too weakened by the Mexican-American War, and the highly experienced and skilled Mayans are armed and supported by the British.
Ah :(, I wanted to do that one.

British do better in the ARW and keep the Southern colonies.
As colonists move into the land of the Five Civilized Tribes, there is increasing conflict. The British hoping to keep the peace, pay the Indians a large sum of money, and have them move out of the way a little further south, and with a deal for White settlers to move through their land but not settle it.
The Indians form their own small country, surrounded by the British, but not controlled by them. With some good leaders they modernize successfully, and become a small but happy country.
 
And of course the most obvious POD: Cortez killed by Aztecs, Spanish tech adopted by them. At a bare minimum the central third of present day Mexico stays under their control. Under the most optimistic scenario, nearly all of present day Mexico, perhaps parts of Ctrl America and the US SW. Perhaps allies in the Caribbean, S America, and tribes in what's today the eastern US.
 
CSA wins independence.

Still unable to attract immigrants the CSA is forced to ally with and arm Sequoyah and Navajo, basically Oklahoma and the northern two thirds of Arizona and New Mexico OTL. Also the Mormons in Deseret.

Following the second USA defeat in the 1880s the Republican Party goes out of business and the USA accepts all four of the above nations.
 
Instead of returning home to harvest the crops, the Mayan rebels in 1848 take the city of Merida and the Republic of Yucatan is usurped by the Mayans and is now a Mayan nation. Easiest PoD, surprised nobody else thought of it. Sure, it ain't in the US, but it was at least as likely as the OTL outcome. Once the Mayans consolidate their hold on the Yucatan the Mexicans are forced to recognize them or at least not attempt a take-over as they are already too weakened by the Mexican-American War, and the highly experienced and skilled Mayans are armed and supported by the British.
Except for mine, this is the only plausible one IMHO
 
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