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.

Criteria
What is and is not considered an autonomist or secessionist movement is sometimes contentious. Entries on this list must meet three criteria:
 * 1) They are active movements with active members.
 * 2) They are seeking greater autonomy or self-determination for a geographic region (as opposed to personal autonomy).
 * 3) 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 unrecognized regions with de facto autonomy.
 * Proposed state: proposed name for a seceding sovereign state.
 * Proposed autonomous area: 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: 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.
 * Ethnic/ethno-religious/racial/regional/religious group(s).

Antigua and Barbuda
Barbuda
 * Proposed state: Barbuda_Council_Flag.svg Barbuda
 * Political parties: Barbuda People's Movement Flag.svg Barbuda People's Movement

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

Western Canada
 * Proposed state: West Canada (Includes Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan as well as sometimes Yukon, The Northwest territories and Nunavut)
 * Political party: Maverick Party,  Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta, Buffalo Party of Saskatchewan

Alberta
 * Proposed: Independence for Alberta  or unification with 🇺🇸 United States
 * Political parties: Independence Party of Alberta, Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta

Saskatchewan
 * Proposed: Independence for Saskatchewan
 * Political party: Buffalo Party of Saskatchewan

Quebec British Columbia
 * Proposed: Independence for Quebec or autonomy
 * 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)
 * Political parties (secessionist): Parti Québécois, Bloc Québécois, Québec solidaire, Communist Party of Canada, Marxist–Leninist Party of Quebec, Climat Québec
 * Political parties (autonomist): Coalition Avenir Québec, Équipe Autonomiste
 * Proposed state: British Columbia
 * Political party: Progressive Nationalist Party of British Columbia,  BC Independence Party

Vancouver Island
 * Proposed: Breaking Vancouver Island off from British Columbia to create a new province or independence
 * Political party: Vancouver Island Party

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

Colombia
San Andrés y Providencia
 * Proposed state or autonomous area: Flag of Raizal nationalists.svg Raizal State
 * Advocacy group: (AMEN-SD)

Denmark


🇬🇱 Greenland
 * Ethnic group: Greenlandic Inuit, Danish Greenlanders, others
 * Proposed: Independence for Greenland
 * Political parties: Inuit Ataqatigiit, Siumut, Naleraq and Nunatta Qitornai.

France


🇫🇷 Guadeloupe
 * Proposed state: [[Image:FLNG.svg|22px|border]] Republic of Guadeloupe
 * Political parties: United Guadeloupe, Solidary and Responsible, Progressive Democratic Party of Guadeloupe
 * political party (autonomist): Guadeloupe Communist Party

🇫🇷 Martinique
 * Proposed state: [[Image:Flag of the Front National de Libération de la Martinique.svg|22px|border]] Republic of Martinique
 * Political party: [[Image:Bandera del MIM.svg|22px|border]] Martinican Independence Movement, Build the Martinique Country, Péyi-A
 * political party (autonomist): Martinican Progressive Party

Haiti
Gonâve Island
 * Proposed state: Zile Lagonav or autonomy
 * Advocacy group: La Gonave flag.png La Gonâve en avant Flag of the Jatibonicu Taino Tribal Nation.svg Jatibonicu Taino Tribal Nation

Mexico

 * Autonomist movements



Chiapas
 * Ethnic group: Mayans, Tzotzil
 * De facto autonomous area: Flag of the EZLN.svg Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities
 * Militant organization: Zapatista Army of National Liberation

Triqui
 * Ethnic group: Triqui people
 * Proposed autonomous area: Oaxaca
 * Militant organization: Movement for Triqui Autonomy

Netherlands
🇨🇼 Curaçao
 * Proposed: Independence for 🇨🇼 Curaçao
 * Political parties: Movement for the Future of Curaçao, Sovereign People
 * Referendums: 1993 and 2005

🇦🇼 Aruba
 * Proposed: Independence for 🇦🇼 Aruba
 * Political party: People's Electoral Movement (Aruba)

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

Saint Kitts and Nevis


Nevis
 * Proposed: Greater autonomy for Nevis
 * Political parties: Nevis Reformation Party, Concerned Citizens' Movement

Trinidad and Tobago
Tobago
 * Proposed: Greater autonomy or independence for Tobago
 * Political party: Bandera de la isla de Tobago.png Tobago Organisation of the People, Progressive Democratic Patriots, Tobago Forwards, One Tobago Voice formally Tobago flag.png Fargo House Movement

United States
Cascadia
 * Proposed state: Republic of Cascadia
 * Advocacy group: Cascadia Department of Bioregion

Native Americans
 * Proposed states and/or autonomous regions: Multiple
 * Political parties: Flag of the Choctaw Brigade.svg Choctaw Youth Movement (defunct)
 * Advocacy groups: Pine Ridge Flag.svg Lakota Freedom Movement, Flag of the American Indian Movement V2.svgcan Indian Movement, American Indian Movement of Colorado, International Indian Treaty Council, Flag of Mohawk Warrior Society.svg Mohawk Warrior Society, Red Power movement

Southern United States Deseret
 * Proposed state or autonomous region: Confederate States of America or Southern United States or Dixie or Dixieland
 * Advocacy groups: Southern Nationalist Flag.svg League of the South,  other Battle flag of the Confederate States of America (3-5).svg neo-Confederate and non-confederate southern separatist groups.
 * Ethnic group: Mormons
 * Proposed state or autonomous region: Deseret
 * Advocacy groups: Dezeret nationalist flag.jpg Deseret nationalists (#DezNat)

Aztlán


 * Ethnic group: Chicano Movement, Chicano
 * Proposed: Greater autonomy for Aztlan
 * Advocacy groups: Brown Berets (Aztlanecas Brown Berets), MEChA (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. Raza Unida Party (Defunct) United Farm Workers (Historically Separatist)

New Afrika


 * Ethnic group: African Americans
 * Proposed state or autonomous region: Republic of New Afrika
 * Proposed entity: Includes Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi
 * Advocacy group: Pan-Africanists Black Radical Congress, Nuwaubian Nation, Huey P. Newton Gun Club, Black Lives Matter (Factions)
 * Political parties: Flag of the UNIA.svg New Black Panther Party, Flag of the APSP.svg African People's Socialist Party, Not Fucking Around Coalition, Black Hammer Party, Revolutionary Black Panther Party, Black Riders Liberation Party

New England Alaska
 * Proposed state or autonomous region: Republic of New England
 * Advocacy group: New England Independence Campaign People's Initiative of New England
 * Ethnic group: Alaskan Creoles, Alaska Natives, Americans, Russian Americans
 * Proposed state: Republic of Alaska
 * Political party: Alaskan Independence Party

California
 * Proposed state or autonomous area: Second Californian Republic/"New" California or autonomy
 * Ethnic group: Americans, Californios, Indigenous Californians
 * Advocacy groups: Yes California, Californians for Independence
 * Political parties: California National Party, California Freedom Coalition

Texas
 * Proposed state or autonomous area: Flag of Texas.svg Republic of Texas
 * Ethnic group: Americans, Tejanos
 * Advocacy groups: Texas Nationalist Movement, Republic of Texas (group)

New Hampshire
 * Proposed state or autonomous area: New Hampshire
 * Advocacy groups: NHexit, Foundation for New Hampshire Independence, Free State Project

Vermont
 * Proposed state or autonomous area: Vermont Republic
 * Political party: Vermont Independence Party  Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (Anarchist)
 * Advocacy group: Flag_of_the_Vermont_Republic.svg Second Vermont Republic

Territories
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico


 * Proposed: Independence, statehood, autonomy or Independence under free association
 * Political party: Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP)
 * Advocacy groups: Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano (MINH), Socialist Front (FS)
 * Militant organization: Boricua Popular Army (Macheteros), Cadets of the Republic

United States Virgin Islands
 * Proposed: Greater autonomy for the United States Virgin Islands
 * Political party: Independent Citizens Movement

United Kingdom
🇧🇲 Bermuda
 * Proposed state: Bermuda
 * Political party: Progressive Labour Party (Bermuda), One Bermuda Alliance (Historically), Gombey Liberation Movement