There are 500+ Of these distinct microstates in the US which aren’t even on any map.
They all have their own separate case law, legal structure, processes.
There is no chronicling or comparison of any of this.
Current Indigenous people recognition suffers from overinclusivity, grouping many distinct cultures as one - which has been necessary for representation but is counterproductive in many ways. (For example, do all headdress wearing tribes care about who wears a headdress, how do you know one didnt create a licensing system specifically sanctioning random people wearing it for whatever reason, if they did sanction it are they the proper authority to sanction it, should a century long squabble between two tribes over this issue matter to us? These are the kind of nuanced questions that aren’t being asked)
The infrastructure is very low in practically all.
It doesn't have to be.
Each one has to be approached distinctively.
There is much that has never been challenged.
There is no specific reason. Although there is a shared general distrust of those who look like the people in the majority.
They all have their own separate case law, legal structure, processes.
There is no chronicling or comparison of any of this.
Current Indigenous people recognition suffers from overinclusivity, grouping many distinct cultures as one - which has been necessary for representation but is counterproductive in many ways. (For example, do all headdress wearing tribes care about who wears a headdress, how do you know one didnt create a licensing system specifically sanctioning random people wearing it for whatever reason, if they did sanction it are they the proper authority to sanction it, should a century long squabble between two tribes over this issue matter to us? These are the kind of nuanced questions that aren’t being asked)
The infrastructure is very low in practically all.
It doesn't have to be.
Each one has to be approached distinctively.
There is much that has never been challenged.
There is no specific reason. Although there is a shared general distrust of those who look like the people in the majority.