[miliantnutcase]

Indian reservations like Red Lake are sovereign states. So why would President Bush say anything about it?

[Vicomte13]

They're not really sovereign states in the sense of being foreign. They're sovereign in the sense of being under their own laws and councils, as opposed to those of the state in which they sit.

[JoeFromSidney]

Indian reservations like Red Lake are sovereign states.

If they're sovereign states, how come the people living there get to vote? If they people living there are citizens, how come they don't have to obey the same laws the rest of us do?

[El Gato]

Indian reservations like Red Lake are sovereign states.

In the same sense that Texas or Florida are sovereign states. Which is to say, not very.