How different would the history of the Comanche, Apache & other indigenous people of Texas & new Mexico be leading up to their eventual subjugation?

[Justinian Girgis]

Pre-American Pacific Northwestern culture was extremely violent, honour-bound, and hierarchical; just abolishing outright slavery in the Northwest was a huge job for the British and American colonial governments there.

I've been googling this for hours and can't find anything

 

[Justinian Girgis]

If you think the Tlingit - really the only Alaska Native people approaching the level of organisation you imagine - would play nice with any government’s harebrained resettlement scheme, I can only suggest looking into Tlingit history. Pre-American Pacific Northwestern culture was extremely violent, honour-bound, and hierarchical; just abolishing outright slavery in the Northwest was a huge job for the British and American colonial governments there. This suggestion is analogous to Britain asking Ugandans to settle Australia for them.

I hate to pull out the “do your own research” card here, because it eliminates the possibility of futher discussion, but I really don’t think you understand enough about Alaskan history to posit a divergence like this if you don’t understand the (absolutely insuperable) challenges to it. Alaska Natives didn’t want to move to Texas, couldn’t move to Texas, shouldn’t have moved to Texas, and wouldn’t have helped anyone - including themselves - if they somehow got there. If you had posted this as its own scenario, I’d have been happy to go into a lot of detail with you about why it’s implausible, and suggest interesting alternative PoDs regarding Alaska Native societies - but since you’ve posted it as a small part of a wider scenario, all I can offer is: it doesn’t make any sense, and unless it’s absolutely essential to your timeline working out the way you want it to, you should ditch the whole idea pending a lot more research into Alaskan history.

something that just came to mind. What about the Mixed race alaskans who are mixed with Russian & Indigenous

 

[UniversalCommons]

There was a devastating plague in Mexico shortly after the conquest in which over 20 million people died. If you cut that number in half, through some kind of intervention, you have a much more heavily populated Mexico which can field a larger army.

 

[Justinian Girgis]

There was a devastating plague in Mexico shortly after the conquest in which over 20 million people died. If you cut that number in half, through some kind of intervention, you have a much more heavily populated Mexico which can field a larger army.

ok, but what does that have to do with my post?

 

[UniversalCommons]

The traditional warrior caste in Mexico was completely destroyed. 80% of the population died. Between 1545-1578 Mexico was devastated. It would take hundreds of years for the population to recover. It started with a smallpox epidemic in 1520 which killed 8 million people, then became cocolizti. This included loss of labor and large amounts of vacant land. This combined with drought. A group of people who could better manage the drought earlier and the plague might lead to a much larger more capable population. There was almost no way to resist the Spanish Empire for a long time after the plague. It was conquest followed by devastating plague.