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<p>On 2020-06-01 15:05, Kevin Kenny wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 5:49 AM Colin Smale <<a href="mailto:colin.smale@xs4all.nl">colin.smale@xs4all.nl</a>> wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">IIRC Indian Reservations can, and do, cross state boundaries, in which case they don't fit in this hierarchy. Or am I wrong here?</blockquote>
<br /> Some do. The only one of New York's that crosses the state line is<br /> Akwesasne, which is not recognized as a unified entity by any<br /> government but its own. (The Federal government calls the portion in<br /> New York the 'Saint Regis Indian Reservation'.) The hierarchical point<br /> is that every point in the state is in exactly one City, Town or<br /> Indian Reservation and no City or Town claims an Indian Reservation as<br /> part of its domain. No Town crosses a county line, and the instances<br /> where a City or Indian Reservation does can be counted on the fingers<br /> of one hand.<br /><br /></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">I just looked on Wikipedia, and 24 out of 326 Indian Reservations cross state boundaries. Of those, most are split between 2 states, but there are four reservations that bridge three states.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Wikipedia also says: "<span>An </span><strong>Indian reservation</strong><span> is a legal designation for an area of </span><a title="Land tenure" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_tenure">land managed</a><span> by a federally recognized </span><a title="Tribe (Native American)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_(Native_American)">Indian tribe</a><span> under the </span><a title="Bureau of Indian Affairs" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Indian_Affairs">U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs</a><span> rather than the </span><a title="State governments of the United States" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_governments_of_the_United_States">state governments of the United States</a><span> in which they are physically located" which supports my position that they are not part of the normal administrative hierarchy of USA-state-county-city/town where each entity at a lower level is part of exactly one entity at higher levels.</span></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span>In your example (St Regis) it seems Akwesasne actually crosses the national boundary into Canada as well!</span></div>
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