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Even if the government and people didn't do the awful things they did to them, there probably still wouldn't have been enough to form a majority in one single state since there were only a few scattered across the continent and not too many large population centers for Native Americans.
They actually tried something like that back in 1905:
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The State of Sequoyah was a proposed state to be established in the eastern part of present-day Oklahoma. In 1905, faced by proposals to end their tribal governments, Native Americans of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory proposed such a state as a means to retain some control of their land. Their intention was to have a state under Native American constitution and rule.[1] The proposed state was named in honor of Sequoyah, the Cherokee who created a writing system in 1825 for the Cherokee language.
It didn't work out.
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Failure to obtain statehood
The delegation received a cool reception in Washington. Eastern politicians, fearing the admission of two more Western states, with a relative increase in political power, put pressure on the U.S. President, Theodore Roosevelt. He ruled that the Indian and Oklahoma territories would be granted statehood only as a combined state.[4]
The hard work of the Sequoyah State Constitutional Convention was not entirely lost. When representatives from Indian Territory joined the Oklahoma State Constitutional Convention in Guthrie in 1906, they brought their constitutional experience with them. The Sequoyah Constitution served in large part as the basis for the constitution of the State of Oklahoma, which was admitted in 1907 after the merger of the two territories.[citation needed]
Well, there could. For example, if all Native Americans decided to relocate to a state with a low extant population, say Wyoming or Vermont, Then, voila; a state with a Native American majority.
Good luck trying to convince all Native Americans across the country to move to a single state.
Here's another way. Take a state that already has a high percentage of Native Americans like New Mexico or Alaska, and require that enough non-Native Americans move out to create a Native American majority.
Finally, one could create a new state, as per what Man of the North has presented, but rather than creating a little Israel analogy, one could simple create a state from parts of northern Arizona and New Mexico where there is a Native American majority over a considerable land area.
Except for the last one, none of these scenarios are remotely feasible nor even necessarily desirable. I suspect even to many Native Americans.
Well, there could. For example, if all Native Americans decided to relocate to a state with a low extant population, say Wyoming or Vermont, Then, voila; a state with a Native American majority.
And what, everyone else living in those states are to be moved out? Ridiculous. What are you going to do, have another state for African-Americans, another for Asians, how about one for all the old people? What do you do with people who are more than one? With mixed-race families. Are you going to break them up, too?
One of the things that makes the U.S. great (IMO) is that we are a mixture of races and people, living all together.
And what, everyone else living in those states are to be moved out? Ridiculous. What are you going to do, have another state for African-Americans, another for Asians, how about one for all the old people? What do you do with people who are more than one? With mixed-race families. Are you going to break them up, too?
One of the things that makes the U.S. great (IMO) is that we are a mixture of races and people, living all together.
There was at least one instance in which a Gay county was created, and that was way back in the 50s. Alpine County, in the high Sierras on the Nevada line, had a population of only about 200, and a movement was started among the San Francisco Gay community, to go up there and establish legal residence, and form the majority in the county electorate.
There are already quite a few counties in the US that have an Indian majority, but I think all of those counties are coterminous with an Indian Reservation, so the county government is generally trumped by tribal affairs anyway.
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