Alternate Names for Native American States

In the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, the last of the eastern tribes were broken and forced west by the expanding US. Before their final defeat, they attempted on a number of occasions to unite to meet this (and other) threat(s). Specifically, they united into Pontiac's Confederacy, Tecumseh's Confederacy, the Western Confederacy, and the Seminoles. Also of note although not formed as a reaction to European encroachment are the Council of Three Fires (later part of the Western Confederacy), the Iroquois Confederacy, the Illinois Confederation, and the Powhatan Confederacy. Had the native Americans succeeded, what names might states coming from these groups have officially become known as? And don't just say the Confederation of Indiana :closedeyesmile: Let me know if I missed any major eastern inter-tribal groupings and I will add them
 
In English, particularly American English, rather not nice racial terms of the sort usually applied to football teams.
 
That's all assuming that the Native Americans would be even included as states at all. And seeing what they did in Oklahoma, whose statehood was largely held back because it was predominantly native land, I have strong doubts about a Native American-dominated state being admitted without it being flooded with white settlers first.

With very, very early victories one could envision Iroquoia being carved out of upstate New York, states being held by the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole, as well as a Shawnee held state in the Northwest where Tecumseh leads.
 
That's all assuming that the Native Americans would be even included as states at all. And seeing what they did in Oklahoma, whose statehood was largely held back because it was predominantly native land, I have strong doubts about a Native American-dominated state being admitted without it being flooded with white settlers first.

With very, very early victories one could envision Iroquoia being carved out of upstate New York, states being held by the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole, as well as a Shawnee held state in the Northwest where Tecumseh leads.

When I said state, I meant an indepedent country, not a state of the USA, sorry for not being clearer.

Building on what Macho-Tochan said, I wonder if it might have a name similiar to that of the Iroquois Comfederacy: "The Great League of Peace". So maybe we could have a state simply known as 'The League', or the 'League of the Great Lakes', or maybe something more spiritual like 'the 'League of the Great Spirit' if it is formed by someone similar to Tenskwatawa. AngloAmericans and other foreigners might call it the 'Indian League', and later the 'Native/Aboriginal League'.
 
It seems like a cliche that British support of certain American Indian confederations would lead to an American Indian state, when the British trampled all over American Indians in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Canadian history is proof of this. But it is true the British backed American Indians against the United States who wanted to annex their lands, and even though the US won some victories against various American Indian groups (like in modern Tennessee in the 1780s/1790s), there were great victories like the famous defeat of Arthur St. Clair. Many battles could have gone toward the American Indians.

In the long term, they'd be protectorates of British North America and would eventually be forced to admit white settlement. This would be somewhat better than what they got OTL, since here you'd have a combined white and American Indian upper class ruling over poor whites and poor Indians and also their black slaves (especially in certain areas). There'd be more of their culture and language preserved than OTL, even if everything is working for the British (and wealthy whites) first, the American Indian ruling class second, and everyone else last.

Honestly, I'd say "Indiana" is a nice name for what the British would call this protectorate. They'd certainly be involved in defeating hostile Indian chiefs and their followers, just like they were OTL in North America, not to mention in India, Africa, etc. But through divide and conquer, the British might form a few protectorates which might have their historic names (and be open for white settlement).

There was a project of Native American US state named Sequoyah, so maybe Native words may become state names ?

Regions, certainly, and hopefully more than OTL, and I don't mean the lazy way of using some ethnic group/subgroup's name (or some other group's name for that group) for a placename.

Vandalia was one, and somethng about Charlotte - there are maps out there somewhere

Those were Euroamerican creations and came from the idea that certain British royals were descendents of the Vandals. Not very relevant to American Indians.

Does anyone know why they called eastern Oklahoma Sequoyah? Was it named after the famous Cherokee?

Yep, he was the namesake for the state (along with the famous trees).
 
This probably sounds unimaginative, but if Tecumseh wins his war during an alt War of 1812, I assume it would be called "The Confederacy" or something to that effect.
If Tecumseh dies later in live of natural causes, the leaders of said state could rename it to something like "Tecumsehia"
 
It seems like a cliche that British support of certain American Indian confederations would lead to an American Indian state, when the British trampled all over American Indians in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Canadian history is proof of this. But it is true the British backed American Indians against the United States who wanted to annex their lands, and even though the US won some victories against various American Indian groups (like in modern Tennessee in the 1780s/1790s), there were great victories like the famous defeat of Arthur St. Clair. Many battles could have gone toward the American Indians.

This made me read up on Canadian policies towards the Native Americans and gosh, I was not expecting it to be so bad. Confinement to reservations unless they renounced their identity, and depriving those who did not convert to Christianity of their rights. Honestly, I figured children being forcibly taken from their homes and educated in western-style schools was an exception to relatively humane Canadian treatment, but damn it just gets worse. Suddenly a British protectorate in the Great Lakes seems like it would quickly become really quite awful for any Native Americans who didn't swiftly and completely assimilate.
 
This made me read up on Canadian policies towards the Native Americans and gosh, I was not expecting it to be so bad. Confinement to reservations unless they renounced their identity, and depriving those who did not convert to Christianity of their rights. Honestly, I figured children being forcibly taken from their homes and educated in western-style schools was an exception to relatively humane Canadian treatment, but damn it just gets worse. Suddenly a British protectorate in the Great Lakes seems like it would quickly become really quite awful for any Native Americans who didn't swiftly and completely assimilate.

American policy towards the native Americans was almost identical to British policy towards natives in their various colonies. It was never completed in areas like New Zealand because it was far away and settled late compared to the Americas.
 
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