WI: Ramifications Of a Native American Assassinating a US President Post 1865?

What could the broad ramifications be for Native Americans in the United States if a rogue individual bitter towards the US government managed to assassinate or attempt to kill the President of the United States in post Civil War America during the settling of the West?
 
Probably most likely in the 1970s, to be honest. I could see something like this happening after the Wounded Knee shootout.
 
It is an unlikely scenario, in and of itself. Assassination as a means to stop white encroachment or even for revenge simply wouldn't occur to any Native American. Were it an "assimilated" or Christianized Indian then I imagine the rage over the assassination would be directed more towards Natives living in or near mostly white settlements.
 
What could the broad ramifications be for Native Americans in the United States if a rogue individual bitter towards the US government managed to assassinate or attempt to kill the President of the United States in post Civil War America during the settling of the West?

Well, I shudder to think of the reservations near white settlements......

I can imagine some serious pogroms and deportations, leading to a more Native resistance, and all of a sudden the West burns a lot hotter than it did in our time.
 
It is an unlikely scenario, in and of itself. Assassination as a means to stop white encroachment or even for revenge simply wouldn't occur to any Native American.

Seeing how Washington kept making them promises of peace and land that white settlers inevitably broke, I think the Natives would actually have a pretty good understanding that assassinating some distant leader in D.C. would do nothing to stop the invasion of their land.

Maybe a deranged individual would try it, but a "bitter" individual like OP described would probably take the bitterness out closer to home, assassinating the head of a homesteader family or militia leader.
 
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