Is it possible...

I think the best chance they have is to unite under Tecumseh before the US become too powerful and the British lose most of their interest in North America.
 
The Seminoles nearly pulled it off in Florida. They went to the Everglades where the white folk didn't want to go at that time. Slow down the pace of the industrial revolution and perhaps the Seminoles could have kept a piece of the US for a while longer.:cool:
 
The best chances are if Andrew Jackson dies early and someone else becomes President. He unlike Jackson may let the Cherokee Nation exist in Georgia as sort of an autonomous zone.
 
Ya they only way is for Jackson to die or decide to listen to the Supreme Court and their ruling on the Cherokee Nation, which recognized them as US citizen that had control over all the land they lived in
 
Maybe with fewer immigrants (a better Europe?) most of the american mid-west would remain native-american.

PS: The Indian Territory could have become a regular state?
 
Maybe with fewer immigrants (a better Europe?) most of the american mid-west would remain native-american.

PS: The Indian Territory could have become a regular state?
Eh, by the time of American Manifest destiny and all that, the entire continent was pretty much already declared territory of some Power or another- even with lower immigration rates, either the US or the UK would still hold claim to the land.

Making the Indian Territory a regular state is kind of sort of what happened in OTL. The US government "opened up" Oklahoma as a regular US territory and immediately white settlers poured in from everywhere.
 
You need a lot less immigrants, so that ther won't be pressure to "open up" new territories. This could happen if the european nations put some restrictions on the emigration flow. Italy during fascism tried actually something like that, but I don't know if it could be considerated realistic.

The true POD would be, thou, a shift in the current mentality, so that indians would be seen as human beings and not "filthy savages" to exploit.
 
what about Oklahoma? for the longest time it was dubbed "Indian Territory".
By the time the Indian Territory was formed, the US government's approach to dealing with Indians was already mostly formed, and expansionism and immigration patterns were already being established. It's a bit late for the POD- I'd wager that the last chance you've got for a non-puppet independent Native America state involves the Iriquois, Cherokee, or some time before the US started heavily expanding across the Appalachians.
 
Some sort of small "pocket" independent nation ala Lesotho in South Africa may be a possibility, sort of a "super reservation".
 
In my British Imperialism TL, I had Tescumseh managing to unite the Shawnee Nation before they themselves united with the Lakota Tribes politically in order to make most of OTL's North Midwest of the US into a single(ish) Nation, Wanci Oyate.
 
Eric Flint wrote a couple books broaching this subject.

1812: The Rivers of War & 1824: The Arkansas War

Both are pretty good reads and there's plenty of room for a sequel or two.
 
You need to somehow keep the natives near New England from taking sides too often in the local European conflicts. By the time of 1812, the US population pretty much assumed the Natives would always side against them in every conflict. This wasn't true, but was the perception. This, and they were in possession of something they wanted, namely land.

So the AmInds need to be more unified, stronger and either more insular or more one sided towards the Colonials against the European Powers then they were. And this would only lead to assimilation, not independence.

I mean, look at all of the Americas. Where has any native population retained control of their lands when those same lands are desired by the incoming Euros?
 
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