• grue@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Three out of four of those corners (including the one in which the gummies are a misdemeanor) are also within the Navajo Nation. Kinda feels like that tribal jurisdiction ought to matter.

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      26 days ago

      They do. And for most purposes each reservation is it’s own little defacto nation. They aren’t truly, but definitely in spirit lol.

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        Each nation has its own agreement with the USA that defines these things, it’s weird. I think it’s in Wisconsin where tribe members retain hunting and fishing rights to a lake sold as a private lake, when cops showed up, they had to let them fish and hunt or the land would be returned to the tribe. As per the agreement from long ago.