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Originally Posted by Astromancer
Does anybody know enough of the history of the Iroquois to come up with an alternate history where the Iroquois establish an independent nation or become a US state. If any of the native Americans of Eastern North America could have done such things, the Iroquois are the most likely.
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I think their biggest problem is location.
They were too close to too many white people who want land.
If you want to strengthen the Iroquois, I'd suggest having the British defeat the rebellious faction of colonists and place harsh controls on the defeated people. Restrictions on settlement in recognized Indian lands (taking an existing policy and making it more effective) give the Iroquois and some other nations a little breathing room.
That won't stop western expansion, but it might slow it.
Maybe there's a second
American Revolution in the 1830s (which really happened in Canada) and that time the colonists
win.
But the Iroquois state has fallen into bad relations with the Crown somehow, and it joins the rebellion?
That seems like a stretch.