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Friday, September 19, 2003

"Native Americans, whom they called Indians, have managed to an amazing degree to exempt themselves from the law of the land.

Politically correct federal judges through the years have interpreted pioneer-era tribal treaties as having created a separate nation for the descendants of the people who arrived on the continent tens of thousands of years earlier.

In Michigan, it began more than 30 years ago with the federal judicial exemption of Native Americans from state laws governing fishing. Twenty years ago, they took advantage of that precedent to expand into otherwise-illegal gambling on their reservations, which sometimes were expanded to include choice sites.

Within the past few years, the tribes condescended to make payments "in lieu of taxes" to local governments that were saddled with the additional costs of these Native American enterprises without compensation.

Now we find that Native Americans have extrapolated their special powers - privileges outside laws that apply to people of European, African and Asian descent - to the field of education."

Get the Story:
Neil Munro: Native Americans escaping control by U.S. government (The Daily Oakland Press 9/16)

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