samcster94
Banned
I always just picture them to do what happened in OTL and *Oklahoma exists in some form.
The confederate government was a little less empathic than that of the Union.
What would they do different? Not much but I'd be a lot more open about it. With no hide or try to Justify their actions then just do a little faster.
The confederate government was a little less empathic than that of the Union.
What would they do different? Not much but I'd be a lot more open about it. With no hide or try to Justify their actions then just do a little faster.
Cotton farming burns the soil out pretty fast one of the big reasons all the Civil War was plantation owners needed to move two more fertile land and take their slave with them.In a region where states are more powerful than their northern counterparts, and the locals fought on the side that won I think the CSA would have a much harder time enacting an Indian removal than the north did.
Tribes fought on different sides, or on an individual basis. I don't think most of them went out fitness he way to support either side. Seems int eh Dakota War settlers attacked the Natives whenthe Army left. Anyone know if there was still slavery in the Indian Territory or if the Georgians and others made the Five Civilized Tribes to leave their slaves behind when they were being expelled? Texas probably tries grabbing Greer County. I see future awkwardness if the Confederates don't invade Mexico, as they are going to want more land. Even if Oklahoma had some of the worse,
Indian Territory
The Treaty of Dublin effectively split the North American continent from almost complete American control. The vast swaths of land to the Far West were still relatively unsettled at the end of the Civil War although among the few thousand settlers there, talk of secession raged in many local meeting halls. The creation of a “Western United States” was actively discussed but the ideas were shot down by 1866 with the arrival of many Federal soldiers from the east, intent on keeping order from the Spanish, Indians and Western rabble-rousers.
The Indian Territory, courted by the Confederates during the war but in name controlled by the United States was the subject of intense bargaining between the Davis and McClellan administrations. Still very much a collection of dozens of Indian tribes from across the United States and Confederate States, the only unifying force in the land was the American territorial government. As the Treaty of Dublin stated, the Indian Nation question was to be solved by 1867 and both nations quickly set out to do so. After months of ideas (including the abolition of that territory, splitting that territory, a plebiscite, remaining the United States, going to the Confederate States) the idea of independence from either country was settled on. The Treaty of Shreveport, as that was the town it was signed in, was signed on December 15th, 1866 and it granted a total independence to the newly created Federated Tribes of North America, or popularly known as Indian Nation.
The top chiefs among the largest tribes in the Indian Territory were consulted in the formation of the Treaty of Shreveport so it was not merely a white creation to rid them of the Indian problem. One clause of the treaty, put it by the Americans, stated that neither nation shall dominate that nation politically, militarily and economically. Thus, due to the intense rivalry between the United States and Confederate States, the Native Americans were granted total independence in their corner of the continent.
The system of government employed by the Federated Tribes of North America was a unique system but justifiable due to the unusual situation the Indians found themselves in. Each tribe would get representation in a House of Representatives which would have veto power over the Council of Chiefs. However, that veto would only come in the form of a three-fourths vote or more. The Council of Chiefs would be selected from the largest twenty tribes in the nation, and among those twenty one would be chosen as the Head Chief, who would rule until death. Elections for representatives were uniform across the whole country but the chief selection process was unique to each individual tribes. It was important to the Indians that each tribe remain intact and that not all Indians be meshed together so much more power was put into the lower forms of government while the national government remained relatively weak, although ultimate power was with the Council of Chiefs.