Subject: Re: Nations within countries<br/>
Date: Jun 09, 2004 @ 18:28<br/>
Author: geoh88 (&quot;geoh88&quot; &lt;geoh88@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-725266612">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, Ernst Stavro Blofeld <br/>
&lt;blofeld_es@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; And how is membership in and/or<br/>
&gt; affiliation with a certain nation/community/society<br/>
&gt; determined? Is this a question of the bloodline,<br/>
&gt; territorial heritage or something else?<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>You have already received several responses to these questions.<br/>
<br/>
What hasn&#39;t been mentioned yet is that (at least here in the <br/>
Southwestern part of the USA) it is often not a cut and dried issue <br/>
of a certain blood quantum, or birth within a particular piece of <br/>
real estate.  And even if it is, the precise facts of events of <br/>
decades ago are often fuzzy.<br/>
<br/>
Since the advent of lucrative casino gambling in California and <br/>
other states, there have been numerous reports in the press of <br/>
certain individuals or families being expelled from the membership <br/>
rolls of a Native American unit.  The expellers justify by ruling <br/>
that they don&#39;t meet certain criteria, and that they had been <br/>
enjoying the benefits of membership unjustly.<br/>
<br/>
The expellees, naturally, wail that they are rightfully members, and <br/>
that the are being kicked out so that the casino money pie can be <br/>
cut into fewer pieces.<br/>
<br/>
Nasty politics, not just a bureaucratic determination.</div>