What really fascinates me in this PoD is the way Turkey is assumed to be a superpower.
Eh, the population thing. You need an earlier a PoD to get this to work. As early as the civil war, even. The US isn't about to let that land just go. Plus you need there actually need there to be Souix for there to be a Souix nation...One little problem Lakotas make up less than 5% of the population in the area. No one and I mean no one would recognise them, not even Venezuela has shown itself willing to recognise it.
That would work because Souix were very prominent in the region until the Plains Wars in the 1880'sThat made things more interesting and gave me a better idea, could the Lakotah people have declared independence at the same time the South started to secede? Or would that be unrealistic, of course it is no longer history after 1900's?
Also I'm fascinated you'd assume I was talking about only superpowers recognizing the nation even though I made no mention of the word superpower...just randomly named off two. It's alright though, I guess I did word that part tricky.
Actually, an interesting POD is the Canadian First Nations Province declares indepndence or is given fuller soverign rights by Ottowa. It then recognizes the soverignty of the Navajo Nation. Then countries like Venezuela, Bolivia, et al recognize the Navajos . . .
That made things more interesting and gave me a better idea, could the Lakotah people have declared independence at the same time the South started to secede? Or would that be unrealistic, of course it is no longer history after 1900's?
They would get laughed at.
The Sioux weren't subject to US jurisdiction at that point IIRC. The Indians weren't citizens at that point and probably didn't feel themselves to be part of the United States, and it's kind of hard to secede from something you're not part of and never felt any connection with.