Sure, I don&#x27;t doubt that these people really want to secede, but undoubtably some rather large component of this is created by external support.<p>Throughout history nationalism, religion and ethnicity has always been used to destabilise countries, this is nothing new.<p>I don&#x27;t put any extraordinary blame on the US for this, it&#x27;s what most powerful nations are doing in their quest for even more power.<p>About the Cherokees: Don&#x27;t know if it is due to their low numbers, or simply because the US is powerful enough to prevent this from happening. Maybe the Cherokees are happy as it is or the right people are payed off by the government.<p>In general this can be exploited best when a country is in severe economic trouble. For example Chechnya after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The US is not even remotely in a comparable state.