This is a list of currently active separatist movements in North America. Separatism includes

autonomism Autonomism or ''autonomismo'', also known as autonomist Marxism or autonomous Marxism, is an anti-capitalist social movement and Marxist-based theoretical current that first emerged in Italy in the 1960s from workerism (). Later, post-Marxist ...

and

secession Secession is the formal withdrawal of a group from a Polity, political entity. The process begins once a group proclaims an act of secession (such as a declaration of independence). A secession attempt might be violent or peaceful, but the goal i ...

ism.

Criteria

What is and is not considered an

autonomist Autonomism or ''autonomismo'', also known as autonomist Marxism or autonomous Marxism, is an anti-capitalist Anti-capitalism is a political ideology and Political movement, movement encompassing a variety of attitudes and ideas that oppose ...

or secessionist movement is sometimes contentious. Entries on this list must meet three criteria: # They are active movements with active members. # They are seeking greater autonomy or

self-determination Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage. Self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international la ...

for a geographic region (as opposed to personal autonomy). # They are citizens / people of the conflict area and do not come from another country. Under each region listed is one or more of the following: * '' De facto'' state (de facto entity): for regions without

diplomatic recognition Diplomatic recognition in international law is a unilateral declarative political act of a state that acknowledges an act or status of another state or government in control of a state (may be also a recognized state). Recognition can be acc ...

but with de facto autonomy. *

autonomous area An autonomous administrative division (also referred to as an autonomous area, zone, entity, unit, region, subdivision, province, or territory) is a subnational administrative division or territory, internal territory of a sovereign state that has ...

: for movements towards greater autonomy for an area but not outright secession. ** De facto autonomous government: for governments with de facto autonomous control over a region. ** Government-in-exile">Self-governance">autonomous government: for governments with de facto autonomous control over a region. ** Government-in-exile: for a government based outside of the region in question, with or without control. ** Political party (or parties): for political parties involved in a political system to push for autonomy or secession. ** Militant organisation(s): for armed organisations. ** Advocacy group(s): for non-belligerent, non-politically participatory entities. ** Ethnicity, Ethnic / Ethnoreligious group, ethnoreligious / Race (human categorization), racial / Regionalism (politics), regional / Religious organization, religious group(s).

Antigua and Barbuda

Barbuda Barbuda (; ) is an island and dependency located in the eastern Caribbean forming part of the twin-island state of Antigua and Barbuda as an autonomous entity. Barbuda is located approximately north of Antigua. The only settlements on the i ...

*Proposed state: Independence for Barbuda or

federalism Federalism is a mode of government that combines a general level of government (a central or federal government) with a regional level of sub-unit governments (e.g., provinces, State (sub-national), states, Canton (administrative division), ca ...

**Political parties: Barbuda People's Movement

Canada

* Proposed state: Republic of Cascadia ** Advocacy group: Cascadia Department of Bioregion Western provinces in Canada

Western Canada Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces, Canadian West, or Western provinces of Canada, and commonly known within Canada as the West, is a list of regions of Canada, Canadian region that includes the four western provinces and t ...

* Proposed state: West Canada (includes

Alberta Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...

British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that ...

Manitoba Manitoba is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada at the Centre of Canada, longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, fifth-most populous province, with a population ...

, and

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the ...

as well as (sometimes)

Yukon Yukon () is a Provinces and territories of Canada, territory of Canada, bordering British Columbia to the south, the Northwest Territories to the east, the Beaufort Sea to the north, and the U.S. state of Alaska to the west. It is Canada’s we ...

, the

Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories is a federal Provinces and territories of Canada, territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately and a 2021 census population of 41,070, it is the second-largest and the most populous of Provinces and territorie ...

and

Nunavut Nunavut is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' and the Nunavut Land Claims Agr ...

) ** Political party:

Maverick Party The Maverick Party, formerly known as Wexit Canada, is a defunct Canadian federal political party. It advocated for constitutional changes to benefit, or the independence of, Western Canada, which includes British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchew ...

Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, which was formed through the merger of Wexit Alberta and the Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta in 2020. Views According to its constitution, Wexi ...

, Buffalo Party of Saskatchewan * Proposed: Independence for Alberta or

unification Unification or unification theory may refer to: Computer science * Unification (computer science), the act of identifying two terms with a suitable substitution * Unification (graph theory), the computation of the most general graph that subs ...

with the ** Political parties:

Independence Party of Alberta The Independence Party (TIP), also known as the Alberta Independence Party from 2001 to 2019 and the Independence Party of Alberta after 2019, is an Albertan Provinces and territories of Canada, provincial political party. History First Ite ...

, Republican Party of Alberta (Unification with USA) *Proposed: Independence for

** Political party: Buffalo Party of Saskatchewan * Proposed: Independence for Quebec or autonomy ** Civil organization:

Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society (, ) is an institution in the Canadian province of Quebec dedicated to the protection of Quebec francophone interests and to the promotion of Quebec sovereignism. It is known as the oldest patriotic association in ...

, Mouvement national des Québécois et des Québécoises (MNQ), Rassemblement pour l'indépendance du Québec (RIQ), Les Intellectuels pour la souveraineté (IPSO), Mouvement de libération nationale du Québec (MLNQ), Réseau de Résistance du Québécois (RRQ) ** Political parties (secessionist):

Parti Québécois The Parti Québécois (PQ; , ) is a sovereignist and social democratic provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. The PQ advocates national sovereignty for Quebec involving independence of the province of Quebec from Canada and establishi ...

Bloc Québécois The Bloc Québécois (, , BQ) is a centre-left politics, centre-left and list of federal political parties in Canada, federal political party in Canada devoted to Quebec nationalism, Quebecois nationalism, social democracy, and the promotion o ...

Québec solidaire Quebec is Canada's largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border ...

Communist Party of Canada The Communist Party of Canada is a federal political party in Canada. Founded in 1921 under conditions of illegality, it is the second oldest active political party in Canada, after the Liberal Party of Canada. Although it does not currentl ...

, Marxist–Leninist Party of Quebec,

Climat Québec Climat Québec () is a minor political party in the Canadian province of Quebec founded in 2021 by former Marois cabinet minister and leader of the Bloc Québécois Martine Ouellet. The party contested the Marie-Victorin by-election in Apri ...

** Political parties (autonomist):

Coalition Avenir Québec The Coalition Avenir Québec (, , CAQ) is a Quebec nationalism, Quebec nationalist, Autonomism in Quebec, autonomist and conservatism, conservative

Équipe Autonomiste Équipe autonomiste (; ) is a Quebec autonomist provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. It was officially recognized on March 21, 2012 by the Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec. The party was founded by Éric Barnabé, a former member of th ...

* Proposed state:

**Political party: Progressive Nationalist Party of British Columbia, BC Independence Party

Northern Ontario Northern Ontario is a primary geographic and quasi-administrative region of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario, the other primary region being Southern Ontario. Most of the core geographic region is located on p ...

* Proposed: Splitting

out as an independent state ** Political party: Northern Ontario Party

Vancouver Island Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The island is in length, in width at its widest point, and in total area, while are of land. The island is the largest ...

* Proposed: Breaking

off from

to create a new province or independence

Nuxalk The Nuxalk people (Nuxalk language, Nuxalk: ''Nuxalkmc''; pronounced )'','' also referred to as the Bella Coola, Bellacoola or Bilchula, are an Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, Indigenous First Nations in Canada, First Nation ...

*Proposed state:

Nuxalk Nation The Nuxalk Nation is the band government of the Nuxalk people of Bella Coola, British Columbia. It is a member of the Wuikinuxv-Kitasoo-Nuxalk Tribal Council, and until March 2008 was a member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organizatio ...

**Advocacy group:

(member of the

Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is an international organization established to facilitate the voices of unrepresented and marginalized nations and peoples worldwide. It was formed on 11 February 1991 at the Peace Pal ...

until 2008)

Cape Breton Island Cape Breton Island (, formerly '; or '; ) is a rugged and irregularly shaped island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The island accounts for 18.7% of Nova Scotia's total area. Although ...

* Proposed: Breaking

off from or have autonomy

Colombia

* Proposed state or autonomous area: Raizal State ** Advocacy group: (AMEN-SD)

Denmark

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* Ethnic group:

Greenlandic Inuit The Greenlandic Inuit or sometimes simply the Greenlandic are an ethnic group and nation Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous to Greenland, where they constitute the largest ethnic population. They share a common #History, ancestry, ...

, Danish Greenlanders, others * Proposed: Independence for Greenland ** Political parties:

Inuit Ataqatigiit Inuit Ataqatigiit (, old spelling: , , , IA) is a democratic socialist, Greenlandic independence, pro-independence political party in Greenland. It is represented in the Folketing (the Danish parliament) by Aaja Chemnitz Larsen. Múte B. Egede ha ...

Siumut Siumut (SIU, ; ; ) is a political party in Greenland in the social democratic tradition. Since the establishment of home rule in 1979, it has been the dominant party in Greenland. Siumut is led by Erik Jensen, who beat the then-incumbent Prime ...

Naleraq Naleraq (), previously known as Partii Naleraq, is a centrist-populist pro-independence political party in Greenland. The party favors greater cooperation with the United States. While parties such as Inuit Ataqatigiit and Siumut also favor ind ...

and Nunatta Qitornai.

Dominican Republic

Cibao The Cibao, usually referred as El Cibao, is a region of the Dominican Republic located in the northern part of the country. As of 2009, the Cibao region has a population of 5,622,378, making it the most populous region in the country. The region ...

* Proposed state: República del Cibao or autonomy ** Advocacy group: MiCibao * Political organizations: ** Political party: Red Rose Party

France

Guadeloupe Guadeloupe is an Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre Island, Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galant ...

* Proposed state: Republic of

** Political parties:

United Guadeloupe, Solidary and Responsible United Guadeloupe, Solidary and Responsible (; abbreviated GUSR), formerly known as United Guadeloupe, Socialism and Facts (), is a political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. The party was founded by Dominique Larifla, a ...

Progressive Democratic Party of Guadeloupe The Progressive Democratic Party of Guadeloupe (, PPDG) is a democratic socialist political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. It was founded by former members of the Guadeloupe Communist Party in 1991, following the fall of ...

** political party (autonomist):

Guadeloupe Communist Party The Guadeloupe Communist Party (, PCG) is a political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. The party publishes the newspaper ''Etincelle'' (meaning "Spark").Great Soviet EncyclopediaГваделупская коммунисти� ...

* Proposed state: Republic of

Martinique Martinique ( ; or ; Kalinago language, Kalinago: or ) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It was previously known as Iguanacaera which translates to iguana island in Carib language, Kariʼn ...

** Political party: Martinican Independence Movement, Build the Martinique Country, Péyi-A ** political party (autonomist):

Martinican Progressive Party The Martinican Progressive Party (, PPM) is a democratic socialist political party in Martinique. It was founded on March 22, 1958 by poet Aimé Césaire after breaking off from the French Communist Party. The party favours the autonomy of Marti ...

Haiti

Gonâve Island Gonâve Island or Zile Lagonav (, ; also ''La Gonâve'') is an island of Haiti located west-northwest of Port-au-Prince in the Gulf of Gonâve. It is the largest of the Hispaniolan satellite islands. The island is an arrondissement (''Arrondis ...

* Proposed state:

or autonomy ** Advocacy group: La Gonâve en avant Jatibonicu Taino Tribal Nation

Mexico

;Autonomist movements * Ethnic group:

Mayans Maya () are an ethnolinguistic group of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. The ancient Maya civilization was formed by members of this group, and today's Maya are generally descended from people who lived w ...

Tzotzil The Tzotzil are an Indigenous Maya people of the central highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. As cited by Alfredo López Austin (1997), p. 133, 148 and following. As of 2000, they numbered about 298,000. The municipalities with the largest Tzotzil pop ...

* De facto autonomous area:

Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities The Zapatista territories are a ''de facto'' autonomous region controlled or partially controlled by neo-Zapatista support bases in the Mexican state of Chiapas since the Zapatista uprising in 1994 and during the wider Chiapas conflict. From 1 ...

** Militant organization:

Zapatista Army of National Liberation The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (, EZLN), often referred to as the Zapatistas (), is a far-left political and militant group that controls a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico. Since 1994, t ...

Triqui * Ethnic group: Triqui * Proposed autonomous area:

Oaxaca Oaxaca, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of the Mexico, United Mexican States. It is divided into municipalities of Oaxaca, 570 munici ...

** Militant organization: Movement for Triqui Autonomy Flag of Aridoamerica

El Norte /

Aridoamerica Aridoamerica is a cultural and ecological region spanning Northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States, defined by the presence of the drought-resistant, culturally significant staple food, the tepary bean ('' Phaseolus acutifolius'').P ...

* Ethnic groups: Norteño people * Proposed state: Aridoamerican Confederacy ** Advocate group: Proyecto Aridoamerica A.C. Partido Aridoamericano

Nuevo León Nuevo León, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León, is a Administrative divisions of Mexico, state in northeastern Mexico. The state borders the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí, San Luis ...

*Proposed state: Royal Republic of Nuevo León **Advocacy group: National Anti-AMLO Front(FRENAA)

Netherlands

*Proposed: Independence for

Curaçao Curaçao, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea (specifically the Dutch Caribbean region), about north of Venezuela. Curaçao includ ...

** Political parties:

Movement for the Future of Curaçao The Movement for the Future of Curaçao (, , MFK) is a political party in Curaçao, founded by Gerrit Schotte in 2010, which has 13 of the 21 seats in the Parliament of Curaçao after the 2025 Curaçao election. The party entered the island cou ...

, Sovereign People **Referendums:

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

and

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

* Proposed: Independence for

Aruba Aruba, officially the Country of Aruba, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the southern Caribbean Sea north of the Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná Peninsula, Paraguaná and northwest of Curaçao. In 19 ...

** Political party:

People's Electoral Movement (Aruba) The People's Electoral Movement (, , MEP) is a social democratic political party in Aruba. Following the 2001 Aruban general election, 2001 general election for the Parliament of Aruba the party won 52.4% of popular vote and 12 out of 21 seats. ...

**Referendum:

1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...

* Proposed: Independence, autonomy or unification with Saint Martin ** Political party: Unified Resilient St. Maarten Movement **Referendums:

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

and

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

* Proposed: independence or autonomy for ** Political party:

Bonaire Democratic Party The Bonaire Democratic Party (, PDB; ), also known as Demokrat, is a political party in Bonaire and formerly the Netherlands Antilles The Netherlands Antilles (, ; ), also known as the Dutch Antilles, was a constituent Caribbean country of ...

* Proposed: independence for ** Advocacy group:

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ( , VVD) is a Conservative liberalism, conservative-liberal List of political parties in the Netherlands, political party in the Netherlands. The VVD, whose forerunner was the Freedom Party (Netherl ...

Nicaragua

Miskitu * Ethnic group:

Miskito people The Miskitos are an Afro-Indigenous ethnic group in Central America. Their territory extends from Cabo Camarón, Cape Camarón, Honduras, to Río Grande de Matagalpa, Nicaragua, along the Mosquito Coast, in the Western Caribbean zone. The Miski ...

* Proposed: Greater autonomy for Miskitu ** Political party: General Assembly of the Council of Elders

Panama

Madungandí * Ethnic group:

Guna people The Guna (also spelled Kuna or Cuna) are an Indigenous people of Panama and Colombia. Guna people live in three politically autonomous '' comarcas'' or autonomous reservations in Panama, and in a few small villages in Colombia. There are also co ...

** Proposed: Establishment of a second Guna reserve ** Advocates:

Saint Kitts and Nevis

* Proposed: Greater autonomy for

Nevis Nevis ( ) is an island in the Caribbean Sea that forms part of the inner arc of the Leeward Islands chain of the West Indies. Nevis and the neighbouring island of Saint Kitts constitute the Saint Kitts and Nevis, Federation of Saint Kitts ...

** Political parties:

Nevis Reformation Party The Nevis Reformation Party is a Nevis-based political party in Saint Kitts and Nevis. The party currently holds none of the eleven seats in the National Assembly. It is the official opposition party on Nevis, holding two of five seats in the Ne ...

Concerned Citizens' Movement The Concerned Citizens' Movement (CCM) is a Nevis-based political party in Saint Kitts and Nevis. Led by Mark Brantley, it is currently the largest party in Nevis, holding all three Nevisian seats in the National Assembly and three out of five s ...

Trinidad and Tobago

* Proposed: Greater autonomy or independence for

Tobago Tobago, officially the Ward of Tobago, is an List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, island and Regions and municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago, ward within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located northeast of the larger islan ...

** Political party:

Tobago Organisation of the People The Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP) is an List of historical autonomist and secessionist movements, autonomist political party in Tobago formed in 2008. Its current political leader is Ashworth Jack. The party was formed in 2008 from a spl ...

Progressive Democratic Patriots The Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) is a political party in Trinidad and Tobago. Founded in 2016, it became the second-largest party in Tobagonian politics following the decline of the Tobago Organisation of the People. The party planned t ...

Tobago Forwards Tobago Forwards is a political party in Tobago, an island located in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The party was founded by political activist Christlyn Moore and Pastor Terance Baynes who serves as the party's leader and president. Tobago F ...

, One Tobago Voice

United States

* Proposed state: Republic of Cascadia ** Advocacy group: Cascadia Department of Bioregion Native Americans *Proposed states and/or autonomous regions: Multiple ** Advocacy groups: Lakota Freedom Movement, Mohawk Warrior Society,

American Indian Movement The American Indian Movement (AIM) is an Native Americans in the United States, American Indian grassroots movement which was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1968, initially centered in urban areas in order to address systemic issues ...

, American Indian Movement of Colorado,

International Indian Treaty Council The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America, the Caribbean and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition ...

Red Power movement The Red Power movement was a social movement which was led by Native American youth who demanded self-determination for Native Americans in the United States. Organizations that were part of the Red Power Movement include the American Indian ...

Southern United States The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South) is List of regions of the United States, census regions defined by the United States Cens ...

* Proposed state or autonomous region: Confederate States of America or

Dixie Dixie, also known as Dixieland or Dixie's Land, is a nickname for all or part of the Southern United States. While there is no official definition of this region (and the included areas have shifted over the years), or the extent of the area i ...

land ** Advocacy groups:

League of the South The League of the South (LS) is an American White nationalism, white nationalist, Neo-Confederates, neo-Confederate, White supremacy, white supremacist organization that says its goal is "a free and independent Southern republic". Headquarte ...

, other

neo-Confederate Neo-Confederates are groups and individuals who portray the Confederate States of America and its actions during the American Civil War in a positive light. The League of the South (formed in 1994), the Sons of Confederate Veterans (formed 1896 ...

and non-confederate southern separatist groups. Deseret * Ethnic group:

Mormons Mormons are a Religious denomination, religious and ethnocultural group, cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's d ...

* Proposed state or autonomous region: Deseret ** Advocacy groups: Deseret nationalists (#DezNat) * Ethnic group:

Chicano Movement The Chicano Movement, also referred to as El Movimiento (Spanish for "the Movement"), was a civil rights movements, social and political movement in the United States that worked to embrace a Chicano, Chicano identity and worldview that combated ...

Chicano Chicano (masculine form) or Chicana (feminine form) is an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans that emerged from the Chicano Movement. In the 1960s, ''Chicano'' was widely reclaimed among Hispanics in the building of a movement toward politic ...

* Proposed: Greater autonomy for

Aztlán Aztlán (from or romanized ''Aztlán'', ) is the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. The word "Aztec" was derived from the Nahuatl a''ztecah'', meaning "people from Aztlán." Aztlán is mentioned in several ethnohistorical sources dating from t ...

** Advocacy groups:

MEChA In science fiction, or mechs are giant robots or machines, typically depicted as piloted, humanoid walking vehicles. The term was first used in Japanese (language), Japanese after shortening the English loanword or , but the meaning in Japan ...

(''Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán'', "Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán"), Freedom Road Socialist Organization, which calls for self-determination for the Chicano nation in Aztlan up to and including the right to secession. Republic of New Afrika

New Afrika * Ethnic group:

African Americans African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa ...

* Proposed state or autonomous region: Republic of New Afrika ** Advocacy group:

Pan-Africanists Pan-Africanism is a nationalist movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous peoples and diasporas of African ancestry. Based on a common goal dating back to the Atlantic slave trade, the Trans-Sa ...

Black Radical Congress The Black Radical Congress (BRC) is an organization founded in 1998 in Chicago. It is a grassroots network of individuals and organizations of African descent focused on advocating for broad Progressivism, progressive social justice, racial equali ...

Moorish sovereign citizens The Moorish sovereign movement, sometimes called the indigenous sovereign movement or the Rise of the Moors, is a sub-group of sovereign citizens that mainly holds to the teachings of the Moorish Science Temple of America that hold that African A ...

, Nuwaubian Nation, Huey P. Newton Gun Club,

Black Lives Matter Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a Decentralization, decentralized political and social movement that aims to highlight racism, discrimination and Racial inequality in the United States, racial inequality experienced by black people, and to pro ...

(Factions) ** Political parties: New Black Panther Party, African People's Socialist Party, Not Fucking Around Coalition, Black Hammer Party, Revolutionary Black Panther Party, Black Riders Liberation Party, Washitaw Nation NE US relief

* Proposed state or autonomous region: Republic of New England ** Advocacy groups: New England Independence Campaign, New England Autonomy Movement, People's Initiative of New England ** Political Party: Yankee National Party (includes both the Mid-Atlantic and

New England New England is a region consisting of six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York (state), New York to the west and by the ...

) * Ethnic group:

Alaskan Creoles Alaskan Creoles () are the descendants of ethnic Russians in colonial Alaska, known as Russian Creoles (), who intermarried with Aleut, Yupik, Inuit, and other Alaskan Native peoples. Russian Alaska In Russian Alaska, the term Creole was no ...

Alaska Natives Alaska Natives (also known as Native Alaskans, Alaskan Indians, or Indigenous Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska that encompass a diverse arena of cultural and linguistic groups, including the Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tli ...

Americans Americans are the Citizenship of the United States, citizens and United States nationality law, nationals of the United States, United States of America.; ; Law of the United States, U.S. federal law does not equate nationality with Race (hu ...

Russian Americans Russian Americans are Americans of full or partial Russians, Russian ancestry. The term can apply to recent Russian diaspora, Russian immigrants to the United States, as well as to those that settled in the 19th-century Russian colonization of ...

* Proposed state: Republic of Alaska ** Political party:

Alaskan Independence Party The Alaskan Independence Party (AIP) is an Alaskan nationalist political party in the United States that advocates for an in-state referendum which would include the option of Alaska becoming an independent country. The party also supports gun r ...

* Proposed state or autonomous area: Second Californian Republic / "New" California or autonomy ** Ethnic group:

Californios Californios (singular Californio) are Californians of Spaniards, Spanish descent, especially those descended from settlers of the 17th through 19th centuries before California was annexed by the United States. California's Spanish language in C ...

Indigenous Californians Indigenous peoples of California, commonly known as Indigenous Californians or Native Californians, are a diverse group of nations and peoples that are indigenous to the geographic area within the current boundaries of California before and afte ...

** Advocacy groups: Yes California, Californians for Independence ** Political parties:

California National Party The California National Party (CNP; ) is a progressive and secessionist political party in the United States. CNP operates within California and supports Californian nationalism. CNP formed in 2015. CNP's name and purpose are partly inspired b ...

, California Freedom Coalition * Proposed state or autonomous area:

Republic of Texas The Republic of Texas (), or simply Texas, was a country in North America that existed for close to 10 years, from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846. Texas shared borders with Centralist Republic of Mexico, the Republic of the Rio Grande, an ...

** Ethnic group:

Tejanos Tejanos ( , ) are descendants of Texas Creoles and Mestizos who settled in Texas before its admission as an American state. The term is also sometimes applied to Texans of Mexican descent. Etymology The word ''Tejano'', with a ''J'' instead o ...

** Advocacy groups: Texas secession movements#Texas Nationalist Movement, Texas Nationalist Movement, Republic of Texas (group) * Proposed state or autonomous area: New Hampshire ** Advocacy groups: NHexit, Foundation for New Hampshire Independence, Free State Project * Proposed state or autonomous area: Vermont Republic ** Political party: Vermont Independence Party Anarchism in the United States#Late 20th century and contemporary times, Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (Anarchist) ** Advocacy group: Second Vermont Republic * Proposed: Independence for Florida ** Political Party: Independent Party of Florida (1993) Florida Keys * Proposed: Independence for Florida Keys ** Party:

Territories

*Proposed: Independence, statehood, autonomy, independence under Associated state, free association or reunification with Spain as an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community ** Political party: Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) **Advocacy groups: Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico,Hostosian National Independence Movement(MINH), Socialist Front (Puerto Rico), Socialist Front (FS), :es:Relaciones_España-Puerto_Rico#Movimientos_reunificacionistas, Movimiento Puertorriqueño Reunificacionista con España (MPRE) ** Militant organization: Boricua Popular Army (Macheteros), Cadets of the Republic * Proposed: Virgin Islands, Republic of the Virgin Islands or greater autonomy for the United States Virgin Islands or unification with the British Virgin Islands ** Political party: Independent Citizens Movement

United Kingdom

* Proposed state: Bermuda ** Political party: Progressive Labour Party (Bermuda), One Bermuda Alliance (historically), Gombey Liberation Movement * Proposed state Cayman Islands ** Political party: People's Progressive Movement (Cayman Islands), People’s Progressive Movement * Ethnic group: people of the British Virgin Islands ** Proposed state: Virgin Islands, Republic of the Virgin Islands ** Political party: Progressive Virgin Islands Movement

References

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Criteria

Antigua and Barbuda

Canada

Colombia

Denmark

Dominican Republic

France

Haiti

Mexico

Netherlands

Nicaragua

Panama

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Trinidad and Tobago

United States

Territories

United Kingdom

See also

References