Should Indian Reservations have their own counties?
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« on: April 19, 2007, 03:19:59 PM »

The BIA map on Wikipedia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Bia-map-indian-reservations-usa.png

There'd have to be a variety of map redrawing in North Dakota and Montana if the reservations above like 2000 people got their own county.

Granted, giving them their own counties would also work if they had more leeway on what they could do. Basically Shannon and Todd counties don't even have a county seat and they have to send their election results to another county to report.
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« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2007, 03:32:17 PM »

How would you pull it off with that one reservation that's split between the Dakotas? Or the big one in three of the four corners?
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« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2007, 04:15:16 PM »

I'm not really sure what doing that would accomplish.  We really should have just admitted the state of Oklahoma as in Indian State way back in the 19th Century.
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« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2007, 05:21:29 PM »

How would you pull it off with that one reservation that's split between the Dakotas? Or the big one in three of the four corners?

The one in the Dakotas is one county in ND and SD.

The Navajo reservation could just be divided into a county in each state, if the population merits it.
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« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2007, 09:38:20 PM »

How would you pull it off with that one reservation that's split between the Dakotas? Or the big one in three of the four corners?

The one in the Dakotas is one county in ND and SD.

He's probably referring to the triangle shaped one (Lake Traverse). In that case, it really doesn't matter because basically no one lives in the ND part of it, and almost everyone of the very sparse number who who does is white (of course, even the SD part of it is majority white).

Might not be a bad idea if there was a size requirement. All of those really tiny ones would create obvious problems.
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« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2007, 11:56:25 PM »

well, a population/size requirement works too. I think there's a few really small reservations in Northern Minnesota.
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« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2007, 07:03:55 AM »

It might create some level of local control... then again, there'd be obvious tax base problems in some cases...
Of course, quite a few rezs already are their own county.
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« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2007, 10:29:55 AM »

No.
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