Well, I don't either UNLESS... It's done in the spirit of "let the baby's have their milk" and "lets use it to keep them down on the liberal/libertarian plantation and under our ultimate control."
You see, when I confronted both federal officials and local tribal officials about the actual factual status of this pseudo sovereignty, they admitted to me that these are not "sovereign nations" or "sovereign lands" stuck here and there within the USA like Soweto and a couple of other's are in South Africa, these are only "sovereign ENTITIES," they informed me as one of our county's elected officials in charge of "land use" which includes zoning, planning, etc...
Now they desperately needed a drinking water supply for their sovereign entity/future casino and they finally surrendered some of their precious sovereignty to the local irrigation district as another governmental entity with a board elected by voters within said district. So when the tribal leaders came to my board due to being locked in a battle with a contiguous homeowners association about wanting all the future casino customers to drive through said H.O. Assn. roads... I had to remind them that sovereignty is a lot like virginity! You can't go around surrendering little bits of it here and there!!!
Now I'm sure this wasn't politically correct and completely out of line for "affirmative action" and not at all representative of "compassionate conservatism," but please tell me whatever happened to assimilation into America's fantastic "melting pot?" How we gonna git there with these tribal enclaves tryin to act like sovereigns when me and my tribe cannot do that???
Well, unfortunately, I don't see that ever happening. Especially now that the tribes have let in the mob and the Las Vegas crowd to run their businesses (casinos, hotels, restaurants). Now it is just an opportunity for some to bypass all the dang laws and regulations every American citizen and business owner has to deal with. How long before Costco or Walmart wants to operate a store with an Indian front man? Maybe Tyson can run the chicken farms on tribal lands. Or ADM can operate their farms on tribal lands. etc. etc. etc. Looking at the possibilities says the rubber is about to hit the road. I don't know the right answer but I believe ya gotta draw the line somewhere.
Thanks for that bit of insight.