Counterculture/Lone Star Indian Territories
The Lone Star Indian Territories, also known as the LSIT, Indian Territories, or IT, are a group of 37 territories in the Lone Star Republic.
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History
The North Indian Territory and West Texas Indian Territory originated with alliances between various Indian tribes and Sam Houston as well as the formation of the Lone Star Republic.
In early 1865, Sam Houston spoke with various chiefs of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole who lived in the former United States Indian Territory and with whom he had had friendly dealings with in the past. He convinced many that they would be better off separate from both the Confederate States and United States. He proposed an alliance between the various Indians and his proposed nation of the Lone Star Republic. He promised them that the lands they held would always be theirs.
It is likely only because of his previous friendly relations with them, as well as his status as a Cherokee citizen under the name Raven, that an agreement was reached. The former United States Indian Territory would become the North Indian Territory and be handled as a semi-autonomous nation bound only to aid in the defense of the Lone Star Republic and to abide by some basic rules, such as the abolition of slavery.
Through some intermediaries, Sam Houston was also able to make an alliance with many of the Apache who had troubled both Confederate and Union forces during the Confederate Revolutionary War. The land promised to them was the foundation of the West Texas Indian Territory, the second of the two Lone Star Indian Territories that have been around since the begining of the Lone Star Republic in 1866.
