Confederate relations with non-5 Civilized Tribes indians.

After a CS victory (and it's potential western expansion) how does CS relations with Indian tribes outside of the 5 Civilized Tribes turn out?

Namely relations with whatever Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, Kickapoo, Lumbee, Tunica and such in CS territory? Do they all get sent to CS Oklahoma?
 
you might see them attempt to move the western tribes into the open lands of Indian Territory or possibly create an additional West Indian Territory in Confederate Arizona if they can get the southern half of the New Mexico territory some how. But they will have to fight the Apache just like the USA did in OTL.
 
Given that these tribes are almost all, if not all, in Texas, they are not going to fare well. The Texans were extremely anti-Indian and were not big supporters of the Reservation concept. Just before the Civil War the government set up a reservation for the Comanche on the Brazos and then another in the Indian Territory. The Comanches wandered off the reservations at will and pillaged Texas settlements and ranches with impunity, until John R. Baylor led an expedition which severely chastised them and forced the government (in the form of Major George H. Thomas) to finally take action. If John R. Baylor or somebody like him ends up as Governor, you might well see an organized campaign to exterminate them, once and for all.

Indeed, differences over this issue, and the issue of cross-border raiding by Mexican bandits and revolutionaries, is the most likely reason why Texas just might leave the Confederacy. The "effete easterners" and their sympathy toward the Red Man were pretty much despised in Texas.

By the way, Baylor was the editor of an extremely anti-Indian newspaper called The White Man, and his brother listed his occupation on the 1860 Census as "Indian Killer." John, during the war, issued orders to have the Apaches invited in for peace talks...once there, the adults were to be plied with whiskey and then killed, and the children sold into slavery to defray the cost of the whiskey and bullets used to kill the adults. Not a very nice guy. And these were fairly typical Texans of the time, and both of them led active political lives. John was even elected to the Confederate Congress.
 
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I'm not concrete on this, but didn't the CSA promise native tribes who fought for the confederacy that they'd get a certain number of senators guaranteed as a reward? Also wasn't Oklahoma under consideration as place to "give"/dump all the tribes since it wasn't really filled with any settlers?
 
I'm not concrete on this, but didn't the CSA promise native tribes who fought for the confederacy that they'd get a certain number of senators guaranteed as a reward?

I've never heard of that, and it would have been very difficult to do in any case as the Confederate Constitution made no allowance for it. This would have mainly applied to the "Five Civilized Tribes" anyway since the non-Civilized Tribes didn't fight on behalf of the Confederacy.

Also wasn't Oklahoma under consideration as place to "give"/dump all the tribes since it wasn't really filled with any settlers?

That's pretty much what the "Easterners" within the Confederacy wanted to do. But again they would have found themselves at odds with the Texans, and possibly with some people in Louisiana and Arkansas as well, since there would have been little to no way to keep those tribes confined within the Indian Territory, and the Comanches, Kiowas, and other would have continued to raid into Texas, and given their new base in Oklahoma, possibly into Louisiana and Arkansas too.

As I said in my earlier post, this would be a major area of friction between the Confederate Government and Texas which could well lead to Texas secession.
 
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