Jack of Harts

The Indian Nations commanded real political and practical power during the Second Great Depression. Many called for full independence from the United States of America, and there was little the reduced Feds could do to stop them. But most believed a more measured option was appropriate. Whether they liked it or not, our worlds were intertwined far more than in the past, and fully divorcing themselves from America would result in even more chaos. So when the States moved to reform the Federal government, the Indian Nations sent their own representatives to the Constitutional Convention. Most were quickly accepted by the State delegations they nominally belonged to, though some fought for their own separate acceptance. Despite their lack of official Statehood. Constitutional scholars continue to point to their acceptance by the convention as a major point for challenging the reformed Constitution that came out of it, but court cases based on that did not succeed in the decades that followed.