On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 at 14:24, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > What I find interesting is that the Canadian Border Crossing is located on > the North side of the Saint Lawrence River while the US crossing station is > located on the South side of the river. It seems to imply that the Akwesasne > Nation is not in either country.
Prosaically, many border control points are built a little away from the actual border, where it's convenient to build them. Per Wikipedia, the Canadian border control point was moved from the island in 2009 after a protest against CBSA agents beginning to carry firearms. My personal interpretation reading between the lines is that the current location is a compromise. You won't find the federal government saying they don't control the land, but neither was there an appetite to push for an all-out confrontation. That being said, the notion of being "in a country" like Canada is of course colonial and seems to increasingly be fraying for some Indigenous areas here. --Jarek _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
