~>  EC> Of course they had laws, just as they had systems of governance. They
~>  EC> didn't have WRITTEN laws prior to 1808 when the Cherokee were the first
~>  EC> tribe to set up written laws, but they had tribal laws nonetheless. I
~>  EC> doubt that the presence or absence of any such laws would have 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 immigration laws.
~> Immigration was a foreign concept to them as, until Europeans started
showing
~> up, they had no idea there were any other peoples on earth.

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