While many of the Indian tribes and nations of
the USA and Canada have various degrees of "internal sovereignty" recognized by
the respective American and Canadian governments under various treaties and
laws, they do not have sovereignty as recognizable by foreign governments.
In the USA, these nations use their internal "sovereign" status primarily to
shield themselves from state-level regulation and taxation of their various
economic activities, even while being fully subject to federal taxation and
regulation with few exceptions. As for the reservations at NYONQC, they
are adjoining separate reservations in the USA and Canada, belonging to two
technically separate entities: the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Council (USA),
and the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne (Canada). These two bodies
sometimes cooperate, sometimes not.
Don't forget that American states are
"sovereign" as well. They have joined themselves together into a larger
compact, granting to their federal government certain enumerated aspects of
their sovereignty while reserving the others.
Oh, I know, everyone is equally sovereign, etc.,
etc.; but I'm speaking here of sovereignty as the term is
commonly used in the larger political world.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana,
USA
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 7:08
AM
Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] gone fishing
for vermont secession & associated new tripoints
If you are going to treat vt as "independent" I suppose
there is a question as to whether these really are "the only tricountry points in america north of
guatemala". If Indian reserves are considered territory of sovereign
nations as some would maintain, what about reserves that straddle the CAUS
border such as Akwesasne which actually contains nyonpq within its boundaries?
- does this not then create additional such additional north
american international tripoints?
will be cruising to montpelier by moonlight
later
tonight
up the ethan allen highway in fact
to the vermont
independence convention
in the freakin state house starting at 830 in
the
morning
& all day
dont know what help yet another
stray connecticutie
could be to them
but if successful we will be
creating the only
tricountry points in america north of
guatemala
or rather actually promoting existing
secondary
tripoints
into causvte & causvtw
presumably
so wish us luck
no new tripoint visits are in the
offing tho
just going for the fun of breaking away this
time
in the meantime another page on this topic i
found
interesting
http://www.vermontrepublic.org/writings/vtsradicalimperative.html
beeps
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