How good an example could the US have been?

WI a more radical reconstruction had succeeded and some more just treaties had been made and kept with Indians.

Imagine a US in which about a third of the less populated part of the West are allowed to remain under control of America's first known peoples.

Think also of a situation where Republicans and Populist compete for the White House and each seeks the votes of a large black electorate who feel safe to vote for whoever they want.

Would the existence of such a nation in 1900 have had any impact on racial attitudes in Europe?

Alternatively would such a situation cause Europe to underestimate the significance of the US?
 
Not at all, because every country in Europa which had a problem with minorities have had them for centuries, like my country with the Same so You have nothing to teach us.
 

Keenir

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WI a more radical reconstruction had succeeded and some more just treaties had been made and kept with Indians.

Imagine a US in which about a third of the less populated part of the West are allowed to remain under control of America's first known peoples.

you need to explain what you mean by "less populated parts"....the deserts? ("hey, we just fought a bloody war to get those lands from Mexico!") or Montana and the Dakotas? ("we can't let Canada have it!") or the lands on the coast? ("you seriously gonna let the Chinese grab prime mineral and seacoast trading sites?")
 
you need to explain what you mean by "less populated parts"....the deserts? ("hey, we just fought a bloody war to get those lands from Mexico!") or Montana and the Dakotas? ("we can't let Canada have it!") or the lands on the coast? ("you seriously gonna let the Chinese grab prime mineral and seacoast trading sites?")

I think the general thrust was more commitment to defending basic civil rights for all Americans in post-Civil War America (the violent overthrow of democratically elected governments in the South by the ex-Confederate "Redeemers", and Jim Crow accepted as constitutional comes to mind), and maybe letting the Black Hills alone.
 
I was thinking of a rather large area The Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma

There would be specific treaty rights for the US to run railroads and later highways through and a small number of agreed bits of US territory in this expanded Indian territory.

Oh and railroads would NOT be allowed to wipe out buffalo coming within rifle range.
 
Does it have to be the USA territory of OTL? I could imagine slavery being outlawed in the constitution when it was written if the southern states backed out of a union. And more clear definition of "man" (as in all men created equal) to give native Americans more rights...
 
I was thinking of a rather large area The Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma

There would be specific treaty rights for the US to run railroads and later highways through and a small number of agreed bits of US territory in this expanded Indian territory.

Oh and railroads would NOT be allowed to wipe out buffalo coming within rifle range.

Blashphemy:mad:
 
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