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In the background, the strong entrenched military bureaucracy that was set up during John White Owl's government became resentful of the liberal-democrats government and favored an isolationist foreign policy and heavy nationalization. On August 12th 1958 the military deposed the liberal government and a military junta was installed in Opdamsland. The new military government tried to rebuild John White Owl's populist coalition while not undertaking the cultural polices of the former government. In 1959 Tussenland proposed a motion to conduct a peacekeeping mission in Opdamsland to restore the democratic government to the ANAN but it was narrowly rejected.
=== Native Nations ===
From 1750 to 1850, many native tribes within the Tussenland were displaced by the Iroquois, French Meerenland and Dutch Mississippian settlers. The Ozarks and the surrounding western borderlands with New Spain acted as a convenient place for displaced tribes to settle and congregate. Amongst these were the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Shawnee, Potawatomi, Fox, Missouri, Miami, Osage, Illinois and Iowa tribes. At the turn of the 20th century during and immediately after the Tussenland Independence rebellion, thousands of members of the Sioux nations were forced to migrate southward into the newly created Opdamsland.
=== European Settlers ===
When Opdamsland was under Spanish and Mexican sovereignty from 1850 to1903, a series of missions and forts were commissioned to solidify control over the region. In addition to this, 30 families of colonists from the Canaries were sent over to settle the region with loyal Catholics. This led to the long lasting presence of Catholicism in Opdamsland as well as other cultural and linguistic effects.
Additionally there was a long history of Amerikaener and Dutch traders and merchants in Opdamslandt and a dialect of Amerikaens has long been the lingua-franca of the region. Throughout the 20th century, the new nations relationship to other Batvosphere nations has been rocky but there has always been an undercurrent of cultural-exchange through shared language and history.{{Nations of the World}}
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