Some non-Natives feel Native Americans have special rights that they themselves do not have

Historically, Native Americans have had to fight for recognition and to compel the United States to live up to its treaty obligations

All tribes act as "sovereign government entities similar to states within our federal system"

The levels of experiences tribes have in independently managing their affairs varies greatly due to extreme economic and social injustice imposed upon these tribes by the US

American Indians were conquered and lost their sovereignty

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There can't be multiple sovereign nations in the same geographic area

Tribal sovereignty means "special" rights for Indians

Indian rights of sovereignty are race-based

Sovereignty is a recognition of the numerous sovereign nations that were in the land settled by the European colonists

Fishing, hunting, and other resource-access rights are based on property rights reserved by Indian nations when they were convinced or forced to give up most of their property

Treaty-based resource-access rights do not go to "the Indians" as a racial group, but to the specific tribe that owns the specific easement retained in its treaty with the United States

Indian nations determine their own membership, and blood quantum is commonly a factor in this determination

Tribes represent exclusionary racial groups

Generally, it is the US, not the tribe that originated the idea of a blood quantum

Historically, tribes sometimes took non-Indians in and made them tribal members; it was the US that refused to recognize those non-Indians as tribal citizens

Tribes aren't really nations; they're more like clubs

The treaties are out-of-date and are no longer an issue

Even if Indians originally had rights of self-rule, there are no authentic Indians left

Reservations are just welfare states funded by the federal government, and Indians receive "special rights" through economic assistance from gaming

Tribes don't have to follow laws, and Indians are lazy and refuse to work

The first settlers were from India

Christopher Columbus thought he had landed in the East Indies

Explorers thought the Native peoples looked like they were from India

Violations of US treaties

Late annuity payments by Indian agents

Theft of crops from Sioux villages

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Dogs

Native Americans

Cats

Cows

Horses

It gives tribes back dominion they had before the arrival of Europeans

It allows them to manage and control their own destinies

After centuries of conflict, relocation, removal, and assimilation, many tribes no longer have rights to the natural resources in their original homelands

It allows them to operate without incursions into their legal and business affairs by the states and the United States

Andrew Jackson

Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Merrick

Richard Henry Pratt

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Native American tribes are "domestic dependent nations" that exist within the boundaries of the U.S. and they are wards of the U.S., even though they may operate and manage some internal tribal affairs

The right of American Indians and Alaska Natives to govern themselves

A policy that has shown concrete success in breaking debilitating economic dependence on federal spending programs and replenishing the social and cultural fabric that can support vibrant and healthy communities and families

All of the above