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To: Right Wing Professor
Well, did you miss the part about "Corrupt proceedings"? I don't see where anyone on either side "broke" any agreements. They just protested a corrupt agreement and everyone renegotiated in good faith...
22 posted on 10/29/2003 4:30:36 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (The Truth is to see The Gift)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Well, did you miss the part about "Corrupt proceedings"?

So if you don't like the conditions under which a treaty was signed, you can simply ignore it?

This was the entire problem with the 'treaties' of the 19th century; they treated the tribes as if they were bona-fide nations, with a leader who could negotiate for the whole tribe. So any time a treaty was signed, any subgroup could claim it wasn't done in their name, and walk. On that rationale, since I never voted for Martin Van Buren, why am I bound by a treaty he signed?

The entire legal edifice of the treaties and 'sovereignty' has no place in the 21st century. Few treaties in fact laid out explicit governmental autonomy for the tribes; that's been taken since then as implicit in the existence of the treaty. The treaties gave the tribes land; I don't propose to change that; they often made other promises of annuities - I propose to pay those at full value. What they seldom ( I won't say never, because I don't know) say is that the tribes could run their own autonomous government with the legal backing of the United States.

25 posted on 10/29/2003 4:40:21 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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