Best case scenario for the native population post war of 1812?

The US goes to war against the UK over the Oregon and/or Maine boundaries and, defeated, loses access to the Oregon Country. In the resulting political confusion and the festering division over slavery, a civil war or succession crisis results in a permanently divided America. The US never reaches the Pacific coast, leaving the Rocky Mountains and westward under Mexican and British control. A divided USA is less able to subdue the Native American nations of Great Plains.
 
Zachary Taylor survives to the end of his term, and, as he threatened, sends federal troops to Santa Fe in order to countermand the Texan claim to the area. The Civil War starts ten years early, as the troubles with the Sioux, Apache, other natives, and Mormons are still in progress. Taylor's union loses the war and the southern states secede, while multiple native states and confederations pop up in the west (also cutting off Oregon and California from contact with the east, prompting their secession).
 
They could get a State and some Senators, maybe Oklahoma, maybe the Dakotas, maybe the Navajo. Then we'd have one or two native Senators (white politicians would still have advantages, so maybe one on average) and more than one native Congresspeople guaranteed in every Congress.

I'm given to understand that conditions for Appalachians improved after they got two Senators guaranteed in West Virginia.
 

Philip

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They could get a State and some Senators, maybe Oklahoma, maybe the Dakotas, maybe the Navajo. Then we'd have one or two native Senators (white politicians would still have advantages, so maybe one on average) and more than one native Congresspeople guaranteed in every Congress.

What prevents non-natives from moving to those states?
 
What prevents non-natives from moving to those states?

Nothing. And I think it would be tough for a large majority native territory or reservation to make a successful bid for statehood to begin with. I think it's more likely than an independent state, and more likely to have better conditions than an independent state, and would provide a better platform for native rights than their OTL situation did.

That's the challenge. How could we get a broad based native movement that focuses on this kind of arrangement with the USA?
 
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