On 09 Oct 2024, Mike Powell said the following...
 
 MP> > I also wonder, though... If you don't have a concept of land as a commod
 MP> > and you don't entertain the idea of land boundaries until the Europeans
 MP> > arrived, then maybe it's not as valid beyond the surface.
 MP> 
 MP> That might have been true in the past.

That's where I was headed. Again, semi-tongue-in-cheek, but based on my limited understanding of how things worked in pre-colonialist North America.

I gather that there were regional/territorial disputes, but not necessarily over the physical land -- more along the lines of, "Hey, buddy... You're too close to my people. Time to go back over there."

 MP> You will get a lot of links that show that tribal leaders now have a very
 MP> real concern about migrants from south of the US border.
 MP> 
 MP> "Tribal leaders in Montana issued an urgent plea to Congress, saying
 MP> they are overwhelmed and outmatched as Mexican drug cartels exploit
 MP> jurisdictional loopholes to embed themselves on Native American
 MP> reservations with devastating effects."

That's something I hadn't seen anything about. Might have to add a little of that topic to my late night reading.

What a complicated worm of cans, though. I would NOT like to be part of the semi-protectorate slash pseudo-recognized city-nation-state that we've created for those folks, and then have to deal with that sort of crap.

RS

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