AHC: Surviving Indian State

Iroquois confederacy hanging on, more devestating and somehow lasting Indian wars with the natives of New Mexico. Not to mention dozens upon dozens of forsaken treaties that simply could have been recognized and respected until past 1900.
 
How do you get white folk with efficient agriculture and guns to let semiagricultural or nomadic peoples alone, when said native groups are sitting on valuable land?

Greed trumps morality, so youd HAVE to build up the natives' agriculture and industry, and slow European settlement.

So you either need a New World domesticates TL, of which we have several, or something like a successful Vinland, where a Norse state sets up in e.g. OTLs Maritime provinces, and introduces iron working, sheep (for clothing), cattle (for meat), horses for riding, Barley and rye for food and flax/linen. 400 years later the whole Eastern Seaboard will be Iron Age at least, and FAR more resistant to European invasion.


There are many pre1000 PoDs that can give you this, but few after 1500 and probably none after about 1550.
 
During the period when the 'Oregon Country' is jointly controlled by the UK and the USA, the UK signs a treaty with one of the local tribes that recognises the tribe as a sovereign nation. When the rest of O.C. is divided between the two powers the UK insists that as a part of the deal the USA must itself recognise that state. Maybe it's actually formally a British protectorate until after WW2...
 
During the period when the 'Oregon Country' is jointly controlled by the UK and the USA, the UK signs a treaty with one of the local tribes that recognises the tribe as a sovereign nation.
Why on earth would they do that? They've never done such a thing before.
When the rest of O.C. is divided between the two powers the UK insists that as a part of the deal the USA must itself recognise that state..
Again, the UK wouldn't spend political capital to do that. It's not in their interest.
Maybe it's actually formally a British protectorate until after WW2...
Moreover. Even if the Brits DID require such assurance, it would be pro forma and the US would immediately ignore it.

Look at such 'guarantees' in the past: In the US south east and in the Old Northwest. The Brits 'guaranteed' Indian rights, and the US promised to respect them. How well did THAT work?
 
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