Comments by "chaosXpert" (@chaosXP3RT) on "How the Navajo Nation Works (A Country Within a Country?)" video.

  1. If anyone's curious, Cherokee is pronounced: "Chair-oh-key"
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  2.  @ronmaximilian6953  The US wasn't founded as an empire, but became an empire (specifically when it gained colonies like the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, etc.) Why do I say the US wasn't founded as an empire? The Founding Fathers didn't know what to do with the Native Tribes. George Washington invited them to the Presidential Hotel (there wasn't a White House or equivalent for decades) as foreign delegations and treated Native tribes as foreign nations. The biggest issue is that Native Tribes lived on land internationally recognized as belonging to France, the UK, Russia, Spain, Mexico and the USA, but were not considered citizens. Many Natives did not want to belong to the USA, UK, France, etc. because they were entirely a different group of people and culture. To make it worse, many white colonists did not want to live with Native Americans. This is why conflict (or genocide) between White Settlers and Native Americans were termed "Indian Wars". The US government and many presidents simply did not know how to treat Native Tribes. Andrew Jackson just kept moving them out of US internationally recognized territory and Teddy Roosevelt attempted to treat them as separate, but equal citizens within the US.
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  3. Basically, ever since George Washington, the US has never been sure on how to treat Native American tribes. George Washington treated them live foreign delegations when they visited the Presidential Residence (there was no White House for decades). Andrew Jackson treated them as non-citizens to be make war with. Teddy Roosevelt treated them as separate, but equal citizens. White Colonists continued to move onto their land and take their resources, but internationally, that land was recognized as belonging to the US, the UK, France, Spain, Mexico or Russia.
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  4. Then what are states and territories?
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  5. They're basically autonomous regions within the US, but not quite as autonomous as US states or US territories. It's really weird 10:10 This actually makes a lot of sense why so many Reservations seem so poor
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  6. They subject to federal laws, but not state laws. Local police cannot venture into Reservations, which is why Natives who commit robbery or murder flee to the Reservations
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  7. Well the issue is that Native Americans did not see themselves as US citizens for a long time (White Colonists didn't see them as citizens either), but the land Native Tribes lived on was internationally recognized as US, French, British, Russian, Spanish or Mexican land. So Natives were in a legal limbo
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