Sovereignty revisited

by Liberty and Power

Steve Russell is a Texas trial court judge, an associate professor of criminal justice at Indiana University at Bloomington, and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

His recent article is "The Politics of Foreign Aid":

What, I have been asked by many readers, does an Oklahoma Choctaw do when effectively barred from running for office? What do tribal citizens do when disenrolled, whether the purpose is to grow the per caps for those remaining or to rid the administration of a voting bloc based on race?

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Amy H. Sturgis - 12/17/2007

Yes indeed, and I classify "secessionism plus a healthy dollop of classical liberal anti-imperialism" as Good Things in general. My thoughts are summed up here.

I recommend Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson, and Thomas E. Flanagon's new book Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans from Stanford University Press as a good read.

There are clear and very recent examples (see, for example, here) of why the sovereignty issue is an important one right now.

Tim Sydney - 12/17/2007

I was wondering what HNN-ers' thoughts were on soverignty and indigenous peoples?

It would seem to me to be 'just another example' of libertarian support for secessionism plus a healthy dollop of classical liberal anti-imperialism as a side order.