State of Minasota

Statistics

Name - State of Minasota (English) / État du Minasota (French) / Minisooding Akiins (Ojibwe) / Mnisóta Makȟóce (Sioux)
Country - United States of America
Capital - Wetonqua

Administration

Head of state and government - Governor --------
Legislature - Legislature - Senate (upper), House of Representatives (lower)
Speaker of the House of Representatives - --------
President of the Senate - ---------
Judiciary - Supreme Court
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court - --------
Form of government - Constituent state of the United States of America under a democratic presidential triramic constitution
Form of law - Brougham Code
Demonym - Minasotan

Geography

Area - 122,621 km^2
Largest city - Wetonqua
Time zone -

Demography

Language - English, French, Ojibwe, Sioux
Population - 1,421,000
Density - 11.59 /km^2

Symbols

Anthem -
Motto -

Legislature

-House of Representative is normal and democratic
-Senate is representation of separate Indigenous and non-Indigenous interests

-in quasi-federal system

Wetonqua

-in OTL known as Wetonka
-pretty small city reserved as capital in days of Minasota being Indian territory

Demography

Racial

Race Population Proportion
Indigenous 979,069 68.9%
White 368,039 25.9%
Colored 48,314 3.4%
Other 25,578 1.8%
Total 1,421,000 100%
Indigenous

-due to Minasota having been a reservation to put Indigenous in it's pretty high
-shaped deeply by Longhouse Religion
-Metis fleeing encroachment in Commonwealth of Assiniboia and Republic of Imalia given plentiful land by US

-which considers them civilized "enough" and useful allies against the Sioux

-especially following Country folders/Americas/United States/Economy/Mineral rushes > Black Hills Gold Rush (1902)

-Sioux indigenous to region
-and later with Country folders/Americas/United States/Economy/Mineral rushes > Black Hills Gold Rush (1902) many forced to move there

-Chippewa from nearby
-and forced into region by government


-largest groups

-Metis

-Chippewa

-includes rest of Three Fires

-Sioux

White

-consists of people who moved in 20th century largely

-settlement having collapsed with Recessions > Panic of 1911

-rather urban and located in areas near capital

Colored

-not that many
-almost entirely moved after Liberty and Union War (1868-76)
-region being a backwater means that not many come in

Religious

Religion Population Proportion
Roman Catholicism 447,615 31.5%
Medicine Religion 302,673 21.3%
Lutheranism 225,939 15.9%
Methodism 133,574 9.4%
Independent Catholicism 98,049 6.9%
Other Christian 89,523 6.3%
None 79,576 5.6%
Other 44,051 3.1%
Total 1,421,000 100%
Roman Catholicism

-brought by a lot of Metis

-some of which become missionaries

-convert a fair number of people

Medicine Religion

-or known as Midewiwin
-a prophet has visions with which to spread religion to others

-especially groups similar to Ojibwe

-and integrates religion with many Methodist concepts

-spreads rapidly among Indigenous packed into Minasota reservations
-does pretty well in preserving indigenous traditions
-while also including appeal of Christianity

-and medicine being notable part that spreads as religious symbol

-fuses heavily with Chippewa religious values
-as they are among the first who convert despite being enemies

-in move that's decisive in spreading it further

Lutheranism

-quite a few Germans immigrate into the area

-and German missionaries make up a sizeable number of missionaries in the area

Methodism

-mixture of all ethnic groups

-due to missionary activity, Indigenous

-also, most Coloreds, and sizeable number of whites

Independent Catholicism

-chiefly whites

-ethnic whites (largely German too)

-mostly German Independent Catholic Church Overseas in the United States
-also some American Independent Catholic Church