List of active separatist movements in North America
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This is a list of currently active separatist movements in North America. Separatism includes autonomism and secessionism. What is and is not considered an autonomist or secessionist movement is sometimes contentious. Entries on this list must meet three criteria:
- They are active movements with living, active members.
- They are seeking greater autonomy or self-determination for a geographic region (as opposed to personal autonomy).
- They are the citizen/peoples of the conflict area and do not come from other countries.
Under each region listed is one or more of the following:
- De facto state: for regions with de facto autonomy from the government
- Proposed state: proposed name for a seceding sovereign state
- Proposed autonomous area: for movements toward 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: 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 (sometimes called terrorist organisations)
- Advocacy group(s): for non-belligerent, non-politically participatory entities
- Ethnic/Ethno-religious/Racial/Regional/Religious (s): for information on what group of people calls for change for each individual movement listed
Contents
Map of active separatist movements in North America
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Map of list of active separatist movements in North America
Canada
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British Columbia + Pacific Northwestern US
- Proposed state: Cascadia
- Pressure group: Cascadian Independence Movement
Quebec (Main article: Quebec sovereignty movement)
- regional group: Québécois
- Proposed state: Quebec
- Civil organization: Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society, 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 Québecois (RRQ)
- Labour union: Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ), Fédération des travailleurs du Québec (FTQ), Union des artistes (UDA)
- Political party: Parti Québécois, Bloc Québécois, Québec solidaire, Parti indépendantiste, Option nationale
Saskatchewan- Ethnic group: Saskatchewanian Germans
- Proposed state: Saskatchewan
- Political party: Western Independence Party of Saskatchewan
Alberta- Ethnic group: Albertian people
- Proposed state: Alberta
- Political party: Alberta First Party
Inuit Autonomist Movements:
Danish territories
- For other movements in Denmark, see List of active separatist movements in Europe.
Greenland is geographically part of North America, but is politically connected to Europe.
- Ethnic group: Inuit
- Proposed state:
Greenland or unification with 
Canada - Political party: Inuit Ataqatigiit, Forward, and Inuit Party
- Proposed state:
Mexico
- Ethnic group: Chiapas Mayas
- De facto autonomous area: Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities
- Political parties: Council of Good Government
- Militant organization: Zapatista Army of National Liberation
(As result of the dialog between the government and the EZLN support base, 5 small and remote regions of the Mexican southernmost state of Chiapas have established semi-autonomous self-governance, ruled under indigenous traditional councils that coexist alongside the official Mexican government, these regions are called Councils of Good Government)
Nicaragua
- Ethnic group: Miskito
- Proposed state: Communitarian Nation of Moskitia
United States and its dependencies
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- For movements outside North America, See List of active separatist movements in Oceania.
States
Alaska or Canada
- Political party: Alaskan Independence Party[1]
- Regional group: Californians
- Proposed state: California (Third Californian Republic)
- Pressure group: Yes California Independence Committee PAC
- Pressure group: Californians for Independence
- Regional group: Granite Stater, New Hampshirite
- Proposed state: New Hampshire
- Pressure group: Free State Project
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- Regional group: Southerners
- Proposed state: Confederate States of America or Southern United States
- Pressure groups: League of the South, Southern National Congress
- See also: Neo-Confederate movement
- Regional group: Texans
- Proposed state: Republic of Texas
- Pressure groups: Texas Nationalist Movement, Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM)
- See: Texas Secession Movement
- Militant organization: The Republic of Texas
- Regional group: Vermonters
- Proposed state: Vermont Republic or Canada
- Political party: Vermont Independence Party[3][4]
- Pressure group: Second Vermont Republic
- Proposed state: Vermont Republic or
Cascadia (including Washington, Oregon, and the Canadian province of British Columbia)
- Regional group: Pacific Northwesterners
- Proposed state: Cascadia
- Pressure group: Cascadia Independence Movement
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- Ethnic group: Native Hawaiians
- Pressure groups: Nation of Hawaiʻi, Office of Hawaiian Affairs
- Political party: Hawaii Independence Party
Northwest Territorial Imperative (including Washington, Oregon, Idaho and the western portion of Montana)
- Regional group: Pacific Northwesterners
- Proposed state: Northwest American Republic
- Pressure group: Northwest Front
Territories
- Ethnic group: Puerto Rican
- Proposed state:
Puerto Rico - Political party: Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP)
- Proposed state:
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- Pressure group: Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano (MINH), Socialist Front (FS), Puerto Rican independence movement (MPI)
- Militant organization: Boricua Popular Army (Macheteros)
French Overseas Departments
- Ethnic group: Martinican
- Purposed autonomous area or state: Martinique
- Political party: Martinican Progressive Party, 22px Martinican Independence Movement
British overseas territories
- For movements in the United Kingdom and its other dependencies in Europe, see the List of active separatist movements in Europe.
Anguilla[citation needed]
Bermuda
- Political party: Progressive Labour Party
- Advocacy group: Bermuda Independence Commission
Montserrat
- Political parties: New People's Liberation Movement
Turks and Caicos Islands
- Political parties: Progressive National Party, People's Democratic Movement
See also
References
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- ↑ http://www.thetnm.org/
- ↑ Vt. Independence Party to meet in Montpelier, WCAX-TV News, September 12, 2012.
- ↑ Vermont Independence Party convention, Seven Days newspaper, September 2012.
- ↑ Hawaii is not geographically in the continent of North America, but is politically part of it.
