You got that right. It only encourages a lot of corruption. Subprime lenders incorporate on reservations to avoid state usury laws across the country. Many other examples of businesses that cloak themselves in the native land exemption to export contract conditions that violate state law.
I think native Americans are very foolish in terms of their public image in instances like this. It’s like taking the “Indians” out of the “Cleveland Indians”, or the “Redskins”, etc., etc., etc. Go ahead and insist on removing all references. It will be one less occasion to think of Native Americans, which seems to be their problem, in the first place.
How about the companies that hire one “special” person and then qualify for No bid government contracts? How about Doyon getting a fifty year, that’s right fifty year no bid contract to run all the utilites at Fort Wainwright and Fort Greely?