From: Ad 

Robert Comer wrote:
>> No state structure?  They certainly had a governing group (the head honcho
>> was called the Chief -- hey!
>
> That's tribal, several rungs down from state.
>

The sioux nation? Reminds a little of the Eddie Izzard argument wrt
"do you have a flag....?"

> fwiw, some American Indians really did approach state level, but they
> were probably more related with central american indians.  (my guess,
> I haven't read that.  I'm thinking of the cliff dwellers of NM for one
> example.
>

Indeed. Mexico was a state / part of a state & yet....a whole load of
illegal immigrants followed by violent action by those illegals et voila
the US South West.


Adam

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