At 12:16 PM -0700 9/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's an interesting question and totally unenforcable as law. Who
is indigenous where and what percentage of indigenous descent is
critical to the rights granted.
I
This is absolutely right. These "rights" are in fact under the
control of the various tribes/nations in the U.S. If you do not have
sufficient provable "blood", you have no rights. In practice, if you
have parentage from more than 2 or 3 tribes, you have no rights. In
effect this discourages inter-tribal as well as Indian/white or black
marriages and produces a culture in which the result of such
marriages is considered a lower caste.
Some of the Polynesian groups have come up with an answer to this
issue. Every young full-blood woman has a "ritual" marriage at about
18 to someone selected by the tribe. they have 2 or 3 children as
fast as possible. These full blood children have land rights and the
like. they then go their separate ways. Any subsequent children
with other husbands have no rights.
Don C
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