On 04/30/2010 05:43 AM, Earl Croasmun -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 EC>>> Of course they had laws, just as they had systems of governance.
 EC> They
 EC>>> didn't have WRITTEN laws prior to 1808 when the Cherokee were the
 EC> first
 EC>>> tribe to set up written laws, but they had tribal laws
 EC> nonetheless. I
 EC>>> doubt that the presence or absence of any such laws would have
 EC> made any
 EC>>> difference to those who pushed them westward.

 ~>> I didn't say they didn't have ANY laws, I said they had no
 EC> immigration laws.
 ~>> Immigration was a foreign concept to them as, until Europeans started
 EC> showing
 ~>> up, they had no idea there were any other peoples on earth.

 EC> When they tried to prevent other tribes from encroaching on their lands,
 EC> and when they tried to prevent European immigrants from doing the same,
 EC> that would be a pretty clear sign of their views on immigration.

You have got to be joking. That's all I can say.

Ed

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