> Agree with the ecological preservation objectives, hard disagree with handing over of sovereignty, whatever that actually means,to a group based on their ethnicity / ancestry.
I’m sure many people in the various tribes object to the handing over of most of their sovereignty over to the USA based on the guns held to their head (and where land was retained, it often being not merely a small subset of their land, but often completely different and worse land) but their vigorous excercise of the sovereignty they retain is not a “handing over” of anything to them “based on their ethnicity”, even to the extent that there is a rearrangement of sovereign rights between the three relevant sovereigns (state, federal, and tribal) such that there is something being handed over at all.
I’m sure many people in the various tribes object to the handing over of most of their sovereignty over to the USA based on the guns held to their head (and where land was retained, it often being not merely a small subset of their land, but often completely different and worse land) but their vigorous excercise of the sovereignty they retain is not a “handing over” of anything to them “based on their ethnicity”, even to the extent that there is a rearrangement of sovereign rights between the three relevant sovereigns (state, federal, and tribal) such that there is something being handed over at all.