Jarg wrote:

"Matt Giwer" wrote in message
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Treaties are in fact the legal instruments that matter and they are
recognized by the tribes which signed them.




Do you really want to use treaties as the only basis for sovereignty?
Because I would be willing to bet a significant portion of the planet it
inhabited by people who took the land from other people without the benefit
of any treaty.

Besides which, most of the "treaties" between the U.S. and the
aboriginal nations were imposed at gun point. It is unclear whether the
signitories from the nations even spoke for their people. At times, U.S.
officials would go "chief shopping" to find a compliant elder to sign
away the ancestral land. What it was, was land theft simpliciter.

Bob Kolker