List of active separatist movements in North America
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.
- They are the citizen/peoples of the conflict area and do not come from other countries.
- 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 : for political parties involved in a political system to push for autonomy or secession
- * Militant organisation: for armed organisations
- * Advocacy group: for non-belligerent, non-politically participatory entities
- * Ethnic/ethno-religious/racial/regional/religious group
Canada
Regions and islands
// The Maritimes: New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, & Nova Scotia- Ethnic group: Acadians
- * Proposed state: Acadia
- ** Political party: Parti acadien
- Proposed state: Cascadia
- * Political party: BC Cascadia Party, Cascadian Independence Party
- Proposed state: Vancouver Island
- * Political party: Vancouver Island Party
- Proposed state: Western Canada
- * Political party: Wexit Canada, Western Canada Independence Party
- ** Pressure group: Wexit
Canadian provinces
Alberta
- Proposed state: Alberta or part as Western Canada
- * Political party: Wexit Party
- Proposed State: Newfoundland and Labrador
- Regional group: Québécois people
- * Proposed state: Republic of Quebec
- ** Civil organization: Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society, Mouvement national des Québécois et des Québécoises, Rassemblement pour l'indépendance du Québec, Les Intellectuels pour la souveraineté, Mouvement de libération nationale du Québec, Réseau de Résistance du Québecois
- ** Labour union: Confédération des syndicats nationaux, Centrale des syndicats du Québec, Fédération des travailleurs du Québec, Union des artistes
- ** Political party: Parti Québécois, Bloc Québécois, Québec solidaire, Marxist–Leninist Party of Quebec
- Proposed state: Republic of Saskatchewan or part as Western Canada
- * Political party: Western Independence Party of Saskatchewan
Alberta
- Proposed autonomous area: Alberta
- * Political party: Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta, Alberta Independence Party
- Proposed autonomous area: Quebec
- * Political party: Coalition Avenir Québec, Équipe Autonomiste
Native reserves
- Ethnic group: Haida
- * Proposed state: Haida Nation
Denmark
Greenland is geographically part of North America, but is politically connected to Europe.
Greenland
- Ethnic group: Greenlandic Inuit
- * Proposed state:
- ** Political party: Inuit Ataqatigiit, Forward, and Partii Naleraq
France
Guadeloupe
- Proposed state: Republic of Guadeloupe
- * Political party: United Guadeloupe, Solidary and Responsible, Progressive Democratic Party of Guadeloupe
- Proposed state: Republic of Martinique
- * Political party: Martinican Independence Movement
- Proposed state: Republic of Saint Barthelemy
- * Political party: Saint Barth First!
- Proposed state: French-Speaking Saint Martin, unification with
Mexico
Ethnolinguistic regions
- Ethnic group: Norteños, Chicanos, Aridoamericanos
- * Proposed States:
- ** Aridoamerican States Confederation,
- ** Republic of the Rio Grande,
- ** Republic of Sonora,
- ** Republic of Baja California,
- ** Republic of Arizona,
- **Republic of Alta California,
- ** Republic of Texas,
- ** Republic of the Santa Fe
- * Advocacies:
- ** Aridoamerican Identitarian Movement
- ** Aridoamerica Project
- ** Charles A. Truxillo
- * Political parties: None
- * Related: El Bronco, Claudia Pavlovich, Javier Corral, Miguel Riquelme, FJGCDV
Mexican regions
- Ethnic group: Bajacalifornians
- * Proposed state: Republic of Baja California
- ** Advocacies: Baja California Independence Movement
- ** Political parties: Baja California Republican Movement
- ** Movement: Baja California Independence Movement
- ** Militant organization: Separatist Army of the Sovereign State of Baja California
Mexican states
- Ethnic group: Sonorense
- * Proposed state: Republic of Sonora
- ** Advocacy movements: Free Sonora, New Republic of Sonora
- ** Political party: Separatist Movement of the Northern States
- Ethnic group: Mexicans, Mayans
- * Proposed state: Republic of Yucatán
- ** Political party: Alliance for Yucatan Party
- Ethnic group: Mayans, Tzotzil
- * De facto autonomous area: Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities
- ** Political parties: Council of Good Government
- ** Militant organization: Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Netherlands
- Proposed state:
- Proposed state:
- Proposed state:, unification with French-Speaking Saint Martin
Nicaragua
- Ethnic group: Miskito people
- * Proposed state: Communitarian Nation of Moskitia
Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Proposed state: Dominion of Nevis.
- * Political parties: Nevis Reformation Party, Concerned Citizens' Movement
United States
Ethnic, cultural, linguistic and geographical regions
- Proposed state: Cascadia
- * Pressure group: Cascadia Independence Movement
- Proposed state: Confederate States of America or Southern United States
- * Pressure groups: League of the South, other neo-Confederate groups
- * Militant organization: New Confederate Army
- Proposed state: Republic of New Afrika
- * Ethnic group: Afro-Americans
- *Proposed entity: Includes Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi
- Racial group: White Americans
- * Proposed state: Northwest American Republic
- * Pressure groups: White Aryan Resistance, Aryan Nations, Northwestern Imperative,
- Proposed state: Republic of Lakotah
- * Ethnic group: Lakota people
States
- Proposed state: Alaska
- * Ethnic group: Alaska Natives
- Political party: Alaskan Independence Party
- Proposed state: Second Californian Republic/"New" California
- * Pressure groups: Yes California, Californians for Independence
- * Political parties: California National Party, California Freedom Coalition
- Ethnic group: Native Hawaiians, Haoles
- *Proposed state: Republic of Hawaii or The Hawaiian Kingdom
- * Pressure groups: Nation of Hawaiʻi, Office of Hawaiian Affairs
- * Political party: Hawaii Independence Party
- Proposed state: Republic of Texas
- * Pressure groups: Texas Nationalist Movement
- Proposed state: Vermont Republic
- * Political party: Vermont Independence Party
- * Pressure group: Second Vermont Republic
Territories
- Cultural group: Puerto Rican people
- * Proposed state:
- ** Political party: Puerto Rican Independence Party
- ** Pressure group: Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano, Socialist Front
- ** Militant organization: Boricua Popular Army, Cadets of the Republic