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These rights existing because the US government signed treaties with independent foreign nations. Those treaties are valid law until the Congress withdraws from

• bryanlarsen 6y ago
  Did the US government ever acknowledge them as independent foreign nations? The War of Independence was partly fought to get away from the British proclamation of 1763 that said you couldn't settle west of the Appalachians without a treaty. Oklahoma was part of the Louisiana purchase, the US considered it their land for that reason. The US signed treaties with the indigeneous population in an attempt to secure peace, not out of any sort of acknowledgement that they had to.
  • gerbal 6y ago
    The US signed a formal treaty, which remains law.
  • notatoad 6y ago
    >The US signed treaties with the indigeneous population and by doing so, acknowledged that those indigenous populations were soveriegn nations. It doesn't matter why they signed those treaties, the only thing that matters is that they did. You don't get to cancel a treaty just because the other party used to have leverage over you and doesn't anymore.
  • jcranmer 6y ago
    > Did the US government ever acknowledge them as independent foreign nations? Yes. That's why we had to write treaties with them, to gain proper title to the land. Even if we treated those who signed the treaties as having more authority than they actually did, and if we treated the treaties as mere scraps of paper, those treaties were still seen as treaties with legitimate sovereign nations.