Native American Nations

The Great Ghost Dance is the pivotal moment in twenty-first century history. There’d been a lot of turmoil before it happened, but what you mostly saw was people still thinking you could put new wine into old bottles. Sure, there’d be turmoil, but your classic institutions, like the United States government and the Catholic Church, would stay in place, leading the way, either adapting to the world as it changed or telling you which adaptations were unacceptable. But with the Great Ghost Dance, Daniel Howling Coyote said that the old way of doing things wouldn’t fly, and some of those old institutions were so deeply fl awed that it was easier to kick them into dust than to let them totter around. The Great Ghost Dance told us that it wasn’t just going to be a different world—it was going to be a new one.

After three months of meetings, the Native American Nations, the United States, Canada and Aztlan sign the Treaty of Denver (Québec abstains). The Native American Nation's (NAN) sovereignty is recognized, and it gets the vast majority of the western United States, with California and the Seattle metroplex as the most notable exceptions. Daniel Howling Coyote becomes the head of the Sovereign Tribal Council overseeing the various components of the NAN. 

Slowly through the years all of the separate nations have separated out as individuals, but many still refer to the region as Native American Nations or NAN for short..