Native American nations in the 20th century

Which Native American nations had the most cohesive tribal governments, sense of identity, standard of living, largest populations, and most territory in the 20th century? I think that despite their illustrious past, neither the Iroquois, nor the Cherokee, nor the Lakota had much strength post-1900. So who did?
 
Bolivia(Aymara-quechua)
Paraguay(Tupi Guaraní)
Perú(Inca)
Honduras(Maya)
Or You want a estate that Maintain their tribal línes?
 
Bolivia(Aymara-quechua)
Paraguay(Tupi Guaraní)
Perú(Inca)
Honduras(Maya)
Or You want a estate that Maintain their tribal línes?

Maya in Honduras, really? Isn't Guatemala more the place? Or since this is AH, maybe a Yucatec state?
 
Maya in Honduras, really? Isn't Guatemala more the place? Or since this is AH, maybe a Yucatec state?
Well both Guatemala and Honduras are pretty much Mayan, I Just put Honduras just Because Copan is there, but both countries count ,as do Salvador.
 
What about native tribes living along the Pacific North West Coast?
Tlingit, Haida, Nsga, Salish, Tillamok, Chinook, etc. lived off rich harvests of fish and timber, harvests so rich they developed some of the highest population densities before Europeans arrived. They were able to dry and store enough fish (primarily salmon) that they could while away the wet months carving, painting, weaving, singing, dancing, staging elaborate plays about legends and potlatches. They developed a dozen major languages with many more local dialects.
 
When I was helping out on A Shift in Priorities I sort of wanted to try out a scenario where a few US tribes gained their independence. The author ended up not wanting to break up the US, but very roughly the scenario was this:

Different WWI, more corrupt postwar governments, bad military occupation of Mexico, longer wait for the Dust Bowl, a bunch of bad personal financial behavior on a massive scale, a few religious cults- anyway you get the idea, the US has a total meltdown when the stock market collapses. The Midwest empties more thoroughly, and one side effect of this is a scheme (in the British sense of the word) to buy up derelict land around reservations. The model spreads from the Sioux to the Navajo to the combined tribes of Oklahoma.

That's as far as I got in the TL, and basically what we ended up with was just a better off Native population (but not an independent one). The next step would've been further disintegration followed by international interventions and a moderately amicable partition of the country, with insistence from international mediators on the independence of at least three Native states.
 
If you don´t want to use the countries that I Mentioned Before,,well you could use the Mapuche people as a native indigenous people that maintain their tribal governments, sense of identity and largest populations of any indigenous people (1.700.000 aprox), discounting the Quechua(6.000.000 aprox) and Aymara(2.000.000 aprox) that are not fully Incorporated to a modern state, as is the case of the Quechua and Aymara (Peru and Bolivia) And still have a resistance movement to get theri independence
 
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