Reply #62: Not "wiped out", Terminated

[ebw]

There's over a thousand Chiloquin Klameths, but as a Tribe, with a Government-to-Government relationship with the United States, they were "Terminated". "Termination" is a word that describes a policy of the US, now obsoleted by an other policy described as "Self-Determination".

Why does Dean's record matter to Tribal Governments other than the Abenaki TG? Dean's position, shared by about a third of the States Governors, is contrary to Article II, and the Non-Intercourse Act, that State's Rights are supreme, and that States may govern Tribeal relationshipw with the Federal Government. The Executives of two of Maine's tribes came within hours of going to jail for failing to produce Tribal-EPA (Federal) correspondence in a State court, because the Maine Settlement Act (1980) creates just the relationship (in Maine) that Dean sought to preserve in Vermont. In the Western States this "reaching in" to the Tribal-Federal relationship by States is expressed in the McCarron Amendment, which places jurisdiction over water (you have spent time in Dinetah, neh?) in the State, not Federal courts. There is a bunch of tribal attornies working on this as we ... whatever is it that we're doing??

The list goes on and on. I'll publish something on the subject at http://triballaw.wabanaki.net

Now, who are these cynical folks who are figuratively bashing your hero over the head with a bound and gagged, if not utterly figurative and fictional Abenaki? I, and several Abenaki Chiefs, would like to know. Please take a moment to name names. I'll check on each one you provide.