asnd since the Indian Territories no longer exist, whats your point.
I think they are talking about births in Indian Casino Lavatories?
If not even native americans can be considered “natural born”. Who the hell else can be called “natural born” citizen ?!? Neither Obama nor McCain were able to calm doubts about their “natural born” citizenship but were eligible as president of the US of A ! A NATIVE american is now considered not only non-”natural born” but not a citizen at all by supreme court. How can something like this happen ?
I’d guess we’ll need a more water proof definition by law of the terms “beeing a citizen” and beeing “natural born”.
Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States, members of and owing immediate allegiance to one of the Indiana tribes (an alien though dependent power), although in a geographical sense born in the United States, are no more "born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," within the meaning of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment, than the children of subjects of any foreign governmentborn within the domain of that government, or the children born within the United States of ambassadors or other public ministers of foreign nations.
The last couple of clauses in the court's opinion make the argument that those born to foreign citizens are not US citizens even if they are born in the territorial United States. It doesn't just apply to the citizens of Indian Tribes. This opinion says that birthright citizenship based on ius soli.
“Reservations,” perhaps?
Don’t know, but they have their own recognized governments and laws, and under the BIA of the USG, so, they are, sort of, Indian Territories. ?
Many Indian tribes live on federally-protected reservations. I know you’ll hate to hear this, but the SCOTUS a long time ago has determined that Indian tribes are sovereign nations within the meaning of the word. Both liberal and conservative courts have continued to up hold the rulings.