My Kossack friends know that I am not shy about begging for clicks if I really need them, and I want to report to those people who clicked on my humor column, "How Did I Miss That?", that it appears the column is going to fly. I'm grateful for your support.
The piece below is Indian inside baseball, and non-Indians may not be interested. It's here because I promised my friends on Kos, and since my humor column got picked up, I owe my friends on Kos.
Prof. David Wilkins is dismayed by language chosen by the Chief Judge of the Nooksack Tribal Court in a disenrollment decision.
His dismay is directed not at the holding of the case, which supported the sovereign authority of the Nooksack Nation to be stupid, but to the Chief Judge’s assertion that tribal enrollment is of less legal import than loss of US citizenship.
Nowhere in Prof. Wilkins’s critique of the opinion does he touch the essential argument the judge made: “While the impact on the disenrollee is serious and detrimental, it is not akin to becoming stateless.”
I propose a thought experiment. Suppose that the persons subject to disenrollment by the Nooksacks had US citizenship not by the right of birth set out in the Fourteenth Amendment, but rather a derivative citizenship based on the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/...