Indian tribes should not be recognized as sovereign. All special rights for Indians should be abolished. The government should set up a commission to determine the just compensation to be paid under the 5th amendment to the members of Indian tribes for the loss of these rights.
We should all of us be Americans first.
In the end, political arrangements matter a lot less than spiritual ones.
At one point, many American Indian tribes were pretty staunchly Christian, the early evangelists having succeeded. But God has no grandchildren, and faith faded, and in the meantime Christians started becoming shy of asserting their faith to all comers.
I hope faith revival comes even to American Indians. Without embracing God in faith, we’re simply goners, playing shuffleboard to amuse ourselves on the way to an everlasting enmity against the God of love, the common enmity of humanity when it was born.
Whatever political sovereignty issues may or may not apply, the bigger trouble is that we humans think we’re sovereign over everything that matters. No we aren’t. We are at best, servants of God. It could be worse; we could be servants of the devil, like we all are at first.
Siberian Americans.