[Arkinsaw]

It's time to end the ridiculous fiction that Native Americans are citizens of mini-nations within the United States. It's been good for nobody; the reservations are either dirt-poor and decrepit, where there is no gambling, or corrupt and dependent on human decadence, where there is gambling. Take the reservation lands and property and distribute them to the members of the tribes; calculate the amortized monetary value of any remaining US government obligations, and share them likewise, and remove any special legal status from the tribes. If they want to continue to associate as tribal organizations, that's their right as free citizens of the United States.

I love your idea. It would work for them much better. Unfortunately, that was not the deal and not what the treaties call for and we cannot unilaterally change the terms and maintain our own integrity.

[Right Wing Professor]

I love your idea. It would work for them much better. Unfortunately, that was not the deal and not what the treaties call for and we cannot unilaterally change the terms and maintain our own integrity.

No treaty lasts in perpetuity. The world changes.

We can't keep the treaties, and still adhere to the constitution. How is an exclusive right to participate in a tribal election, based on race, consistent with the 14th amendment? How can we justify different laws for a white man and an Indian who live beside each other on a reservation?

[CSM]

"It's time to end the ridiculous fiction that Native Americans are citizens of mini-nations within the United States. It's been good for nobody;..."

It's time to end the ridiculous fiction that States should be able to set up their own governments and we should just roll them all into the Fed gov't. It hasn't been good for anybody, almost all of the states have huge debts and this proves they should be managed under the federal system!