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Are all the other treaties going to be reviewed? What percentage of the USA would become reservation land if all the treaties were honored? If it was >50% would
by irrational 6y ago
Are all the other treaties going to be reviewed? What percentage of the USA would become reservation land if all the treaties were honored? If it was >50% would we still call them reservations?
- duxup 6y agoI think this had more to do with the specifics of this specific land and how things played out legally. I'm not sure these circumstances apply anywhere else.
- jcwayne 6y agoIt seems that what they've ruled is not that the treaty must be honored, but that only the federal government gets to decide not to honor it. Absent a specific decision to that effect, the treaty is still in force which limits the state's authority.
- guerrilla 6y agoThis doesn't answer your question directly but its fascinating [1] [1] https://www.whose.land/en/ https://www.whose.land/en/
- bananabreakfast 6y agoThey're not saying the treaty must be honored. They're saying, unlike the many other treaties that were explicitly invalidated by laws passed, these ones were never really directly addressed so they must de facto still stand. Also, no where near 50% of the US was ever granted in treaties. The vast majority was simply taken militarily without compromise.