petro
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Just giving you shit, but it did sound familiar. We usually agree on most topics.OH GOD NO! Don't wish that on me. I hope not. I'd have to pluck my eye out. I'll plead insanity due to extended covid shutdown acute cranial infarction syndrome (ECSACI).Dude...Keeping the White Man away is never a bad idea.Pretty sure the State highway department or State police will take care of that.OKAY then! Go take them blockades down then! Tell then damn injuns you're coming to just get out of your way.Not their choice on a state or US highway.They also probably have a vested interest in the casino. But again, that is THEIR CHOICE. In the case of said highways, they have opted to CLOSE THEM.Don't know the particulars of that tribe, but the Souix tribe near Twin Cities is working with the state and county to refurbish a heavily used highway that serves the richest casino in the Twin Cities. They wanted the new improvements.That's all fine and good because all of the land involved is within the territorial taxing authority ownership of the United States. Indian Land is like another country. Still waiting for someone to show me the agreement signed when the Indians allowed the state to build across their land. If the state had the uncontested RIGHT OF WAY on those highways, then why didn't they just immediately remove the blockades!You know nothing about rural highway right of way.Sounds like a really good question for a court to decide.This is interesting. The governor of SD thinks she has any control over the Indian sovereign nations in her state. She doesn't. The checkpoints are on Indian land. Sovereign and separate from the US. The governor has no jurisdiction.
They have the right to prevent people from catching the virus. They have a high rate of infections now. All they're trying to do is stop the rate of infection so people won't die.
The governor is threatening legal action. It will be interesting to see how this works out.
Noem demands tribes remove travel checkpoints on Indian reservations
State threatens legal action if checkpoints at a pair of South Dakota tribes aren't removed in 48 hours.www.argusleader.com
A highway isn't tribal land dude, lol
The highway and cement might not be theirs, I don't know no one has provided any proof of that, the land that highway is on belongs to the Indians. It's their land.
If they didn't want the Indians to have any control of that highway they shouldn't have built it on Indian land.
Our highway department in MN will remove any obstruction or fencing put up by property owners that intrudes into the right of way. That land belongs to the state. Even is marked as being so along many of our highways. Different than a utility easement which goes back to adjoining property owners if abandoned. Frequently we have idiots putting snowfencing up to force snowmobiles out of the ditch onto the roadway because some idiot doesn't want them crossing the end of their driveway. The state will force the property owner to remove or they will at owners expense.
Railways right of way are owned and policed by the Railroad companies.
Off the right of way, yes.
Thing is. If all business is closed on tribal land, no one is going to stop there. Only reason anyone goes to tribal land is for a casino or cheap smokes. One does not get the virus from cars doing 70 just passing through. It frankly is just a stupid position to block traffic, it accomplishes nothing.
Did you just go IM2 on me?
Not downing the Indians, just think the blockade is pointless.
First the most part, the many tribes here have found the White man's weakness. One armed bandits. The white folks gladly donate at the casinos as long as there is an occasional winner. They have built new schools, civic centers, medical clinics, and taken advantage of tourism. More power to them. Unlike IM2 expecting reparations for generations to come.
