Robert Kolker wrote:
Jarg wrote:
"Matt Giwer" wrote in message
...
Treaties are in fact the legal instruments that matter and they are
recognized by the tribes which signed them.
Do you really want to use treaties as the only basis for sovereignty?
Because I would be willing to bet a significant portion of the planet
it inhabited by people who took the land from other people without the
benefit of any treaty.

Besides which, most of the "treaties" between the U.S. and the
aboriginal nations were imposed at gun point. It is unclear whether the
signitories from the nations even spoke for their people. At times, U.S.
officials would go "chief shopping" to find a compliant elder to sign
away the ancestral land. What it was, was land theft simpliciter.

And THAT IS WHY I keep saying the tribes currently recognize them as legitimate
whenever they go to court to have the provisions enforced.

I am way ahead of you.

You may find a problem with the means of signing but the tribes today recognize
them.

--
Chutzpah, def., murdering Palestinians and then regretting their deaths.
Ex. We will never forgive them for making us kill them.
-- The Iron Webmaster, 3663
nizkor http://www.giwersworld.org/nizkook/nizkook.phtml
Blame Israel http://www.ussliberty.org a10