On 5/15/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/15/07, Jeffrey V. Merkey jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
Criminal liaibility is not exempted under this section. Better go read it again.
Ok what is the exact federal statute you think the foundation would be in violation of?
Based on the wording of the proposal, and Jeffrey's wording here, the sense seems to be that the policy is meant to appeal both to the sensibilities of the tribal nations, as well as supporting the ideal that only the United States Federal government can decide who's a legitimate "Indian tribe". Several issues, unless I'm being dense or ignorant, with all that.
1. "en.wikipedia.org" isn't "unitedstates.wikipedia.org". Wikipedia's only obligation to the US is to not break laws where they're hosted. Anything else is irrelevant, since it's explicitely not supposed to be an American encyclopedia.
2. The United States has zero jurisdiction on "who is Indian" outside of the United States. Are tribes in Canada reliant on US law?
3. Why are we worrying about appealing to the support and/or sensibilities of the tribes with their own policy? Do we have WP:Muslim, WP:Jews, WP:Hungarian, WP:Tamil, and WP:Somalians?