If there's one certainty in America, it's that owning the land is enough to keep it.
I was hoping you would make an argument for the natural gas, mineral rights ( gaming are another thing but how about the parts that were ceded to the tribes, and now being stolen. Is this really a controversy? Dude, they are just wading on to the res and TAKING. When we sue they just throw the media at as "omg those indian givers just trying to sue us again."
No. We were ceded those lands and everything in them as a rite of a war we never declared. The reservation was just a scrap that you didn't think was worth anything so you decided we could fight it out with the Eastern Shoshone.
Fast forward to the 90s, and it's valuable to you again, not for the people living there, but for the natural gas and minerals. You didn't even ask, you just barged in and started drilling, assuming that we would either lose the lawsuit, or you could promulgate public opinion (omg those indian givers--it's not like you have to try hard to sway rednecks) Are you fucking kidding me? Fool, I know you're biased but you at least have facts first. At this point you know the basics of the WRIR, and you probably have seen my part in the politics of gaming, and the rest.
Is there any lawsuit the Northern Arapaho Nation has brought on the USA that you disagree with? Like any single one?
I understand the Eastern Shoshone problems, I understand they are understated, and I agree that the the N. Arapaho uniliteraly dissolving the joint business council (basically giving the E Shoshone gaming rights to machines only, and leaving the entire casino to N. Arapaho (my tribe) was complete bullshit. I understand the littleWind Casino (machines only) and the other one (forgot the name) are basically the only things the Eastern Shoshone got. You're talking to a N. Arapaho that thinks it's wrong, and my one vote will get counted July 1, 2018. Go me.
My question is a really easy one. Why not just cede borders and passports to people that 1. (live on live in sovereign land) Passports, let us cede pass to people
The second one is marginally easy. Make it the same as Canada, England, or whatever. If NGFM wants in, you let him the fuck in.