Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Terry:
Perhaps you can explain something to me then. Right now we are having
an election coming up and on the ballot there is a thing where you can
vote as to whether the Indians should be allowed to keep gambling on the
reservations. If they are a soverign nation, or if they fall under the
government, how can we decide as a state if they should or should not
have their gambling?
Personally I think we should just leave the Indians alone. But then
again I don't know that much about this gambling thing.
Sue
> >Hi Terry:
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >I *thought* that Indian reservations had their own laws.
>
> Hi Sue,
>
> They do indeed. The problem arises mostly with their jurisdiction over us
> forked tongues. :-} There are many battles here in New York with state
> authorities. At times the state has even threatened to blockade the Indian
> reservation to attempt to get its way. It is really the federal government
> that has jurisdiction in disputes.
>
> >We have a lot
> >of them around here, and that is why they can have gambling when the
> >rest of the state can't. But is it really because they are under
> >federal law, and not state law.
> >
> >Sue
>
> Yes.
>
> Supposedly the reservations are sovereign nations. It is honored only in
> the breach, of course.
>
> >> Crimes committed on Federal installations are federal crimes. The same is
> >> also true of crimes committed on Indian reservations if they are not handled
> >> by tribal authorities.
> Best, Terry
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