From: Robert Comer 

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

You I've heard nation, but it's not so much a political entity like we're
talking about.  "First nation" is what I hadn't heard.

>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.

Not sure I get you point here...

--
Bob Comer



On Tue, 29 May 2007 07:07:12 +0100, Ad
 wrote:

>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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