From: "John Beamish" 

On a completely different subject ... when your messages are displayed in
Opera, the quoted message (i.e. my earlier comment) is greyed and when I
reply to the message, the only part that appears in the quoteback is the
comment you added ... my original comment (greyed) doesn't appear.
Interesting.

What part of "State" functionality do you think was missing from
their structure.  FWIW, the term used here to refer to them is "First
Nations" which is, to me, an acknowledgement of something more than
merely tribal.

On Thu, 24 May 2007 22:04:13 -0400, 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.
>
> 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.
>

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