[pepsi_junkie]

The reservations where the Indians were sent “are all in States with Hispanic names: Montana, Colorado, California, New Mexico... in the north, there are none, except one for Indians who fled Canada. Why aren’t there reserves in Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Virginia, or New York? Why?”

I question the credentials of someone who tells me there are no indian reservations in New York.

[Eleutheria5]

A Supreme Court case caused a major crisis in upstate New York real estate. The treaty between the State of New York and a tribe, I think the Oneontas, was ruled invalid, because it was not approved by Congress, which had exclusive jurisdiction to ratify treaties with native tribes under the Indian Act of 1797, and all of the real estate in their former stomping grounds became untransferable and title insurance could not be gotten for it. Doctrine of Laches, Statute of Limitations, Promissory Estoppel, even Adverse Possession were not able to get the upstate landowners and banks out of this predicament. I don’t know how it was resolved or if it was resolved. Maybe there was a cash settlement. But there you are. Nobody grabbed their guns and wiped them all out. See how nice whitey’s become?