In a message dated 7/6/00 2:29:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << Not being a lawyer, and being in a pretty negative mood just now, these passages seem to me to give the US gov. the same type of control over Indian country that a guardian has over someone's lucrative trust fund. Who'd want to give that up? >> Gail, They don't want to give nothing up. They just want more and more and more. I think a few of these treaties, should be sent to the Supreme Court. I bet most of them were probably not very legal. Did the NA signers, actually know what they were signing? Were they in complete understanding of all the terms? Did they have legal counsel? HELL NO!!! I think we owe all the NA's alot of money. There interest were not protected by any means. When we start getting into REPATITIONS, reguarding slavery and such. I will be there fighting for NA repatitions. Somebody needs to wake Washington DC up. This buisness about the republicans, may have come at a great time. Because now we see what they want , before their put in office. So its up to each and every one of you, to decide if your gonna let these republicans, take what little you have left. Bright Star