In a continental Republic of Texas, (Gulf to Pacific) how would Texas treat the Native American tribes. Would Indian relations be determined by what political party was in power or would Texas just forcibly remove all tribes?
In a continental Republic of Texas, (Gulf to Pacific) how would Texas treat the Native American tribes. Would Indian relations be determined by what political party was in power or would Texas just forcibly remove all tribes?
Only if you mean that as a euphemism.
The answer is that Texas would strive to be "The White Man's State", enslavement and slaughter are the only outcomes to native peoples in the Filibuster Republic.
Only if you mean that as a euphemism
Seeing how Texas was the result of American expansionist tendencies and led by cattle drivers and miners, Natives woul$d be fucked if they were atop something valuable.
Forcibly remove at best. Sam Houston might have been sympathetic to the Indians, but he was backed by neither a broad political coalition nor public sympathy in this matter. The only questions are when Texas gets its shit together enough to crush the Indians, and when they do whether they'll expel them, kill them all, or set up reservations (probably not).
there was an attempt to demarcate a formal boundary between Texas and Comancheria, but it didn't seem to have come to anything.
Really does depend on who's leading the country and past interactions with said Natives.
Sadly, TBH, I don't think the Comanches would ever have it easy, mainly thanks to the fact that they did constantly attack Texian settlements during the early days of the Republic. And many smaller tribes might not make it regardless of how badly or how well they may be treated.
Texas history buffs may recall the story of how an Apache chief, Flacco, rescued a famous Texas Ranger by the name of Jack Hays during the Texas Revolution. That by itself may be a "saving grace" as it were. And, if you can try not to get too many hardcore reactionaries in the government(not easy but doable), some tribes, at least, may not fare as badly as they did IOTL, even if not doing really well in the end.
a Texas that stretched to the Pacific would include a huge expanse of rather useless (to whites) desert land. I'd imagine that chunks of this would be left to the natives. It's likely that TX would fight a lot of punitive campaigns to keep the natives quiet on their reservations (as the USA did in OTL), but it's not likely that they would expel them from those unwanted desert lands...