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Quote by: rcne Why would this bill be the closing chapter for sovereignty? I thought this bill would re-establish the sovereignty? |
Not at all. Sovereignty is a complex issue. Are the Indian nations sovereign? Can they make treaties with other nations? Are they able to formulate foreign policy for their own purposes? NO? Then they are not really sovereign... This would be
limited sovereignty, which amounts to very little.
True sovereignty was what existed in the Kingdom of Hawaii, pre-1893. They Kingdom had treaties with many nations and a treaty of friendship and trade with the US which was dishonored by the US complicity in the overthrow of the legitimate government. Now the US seeks to formalize and legitimize their siezure of another nation, for which they have apologized by a congressional resolution.
http://www.hawaii-nation.org/publawsum.html
This recognition via the Akaka Bill is an attempt to render the Hawaiian question in a likeness of the Indian Nations that were granted limited sovereignty. See this legal discussion of the concept:
http://www.umass.edu/legal/derrico/sovereignty.html
And from an Indian point of view:
http://www.airpi.org/pubs/leventhl.html
And some of the Hawaiian sovereignty advocates:
http://www.hookele.com/non-hawaiians/chapter2.html#sov
Research this (with your own biases) and discuss how you would feel about Hawaii eventually becoming an independent nation again. Or being permanently subsumed by the mass culture of the US in the ongoing process of colonization of one of the earth's most beautiful pieces of real estate by the world's most powerful nation...