The 5 Civilized Tribes

Asides from the fact it would be kickass to see Comanches fighting under the US banner would be kickass!

Yes Sir!!!!! Needless to say good luck to anyone who wants to tangle with Apache and Commanche Scouts. Or better yet Geronimo leading soldiers in a Guerilla extermination campaign :D:D I don't remember who said it but I believe it was German General (very well could have been Sheridan) who said that the Apaches were the finest light cavalry they had ever seen.
 
Yes Sir!!!!! Needless to say good luck to anyone who wants to tangle with Apache and Commanche Scouts. Or better yet Geronimo leading soldiers in a Guerilla extermination campaign :D:D I don't remember who said it but I believe it was German General (very well could have been Sheridan) who said that the Apaches were the finest light cavalry they had ever seen.

Could this technically open a way for the United States to a be more multicultural society, perhaps being proud of its native people? And no doubt there would be a lot more Native Americans in the ATL America.
 
That is simply fascinating! Here is the link to the treaty.
I always thought so too ever since someone on the site mentioned it and I looked it up. It's a very interesting POD and if I've considered trying to write a TL based on the prospect, but never gotten around to it.

I think article 6 of the treaty is probably the most interesting part, considering that it not only promises a guarantee of the Delaware's territory, but also explicitly calls the alliance a confederation, and opens the possibility of future tribes joining under similar agreements:

Whereas the enemies of the United States have endeavored, by every artifice in their power, to possess the Indians in general with an opinion, that it is the design of the States aforesaid, to extirpate the Indians and take possession of their country: to obviate such false suggestion, the United States do engage to guarantee to the aforesaid nation of Delawares, and their heirs, all their territorial rights in the fullest and most ample manner, as it hath been bounded by former treaties, as long as they the said Delaware nation shall abide by, and hold fast the chainof friendship now entered into. And it is further agreed on between the contracting parties should it for the future be found conducive for the mutual interest of both parties to invite any other tribes who have been friends to the interest of the United States, to join the present confederation, and to form a state whereof the Delaware nation shall be the head, and have a representation in Congress: Provided, nothing contained in this article to be considered as conclusive until it meets with the approbation of Congress. And it is also the intent and meaning of this article, that no protection or countenance shall be afforded to any who are at present our enemies, by which they might escape the punishment they deserve.
 
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