Replying to a message of Earl Croasmun to Ed Hulett:

 EC> ~>  RS> Ask any Native American about illegal immigrants.

 EC> ~> They didn't have any immigration laws in effect. In fact,
 EC> they weren't a single ~> nation. They were several small
 EC> nations that fought viciously among themselves.

 EC> Of course they had laws, just as they had systems of
 EC> governance.  They didn't have WRITTEN laws prior to 1808
 EC> when the Cherokee were the first tribe to set up written
 EC> laws, but they had tribal laws nonetheless.  I doubt that
 EC> the presence or absence of any such laws would have made
 EC> any difference to those who pushed them westward.

Then there was the Seneca nation in the New York area.

And the plains tribes developed a common method of speech - sign language.
Dunno if they went so far as to also develop rules or laws.

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