[Talk-us] Native American Reservations

[Richard Weait]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Apollinaris Schoell<aschoell at gmail.com> wrote:
> the wiki has them as proposal on boundary=adminstrative,  admin level 1, but
> this is definitely wrong. they should be either level 3 - 5. as far as I
> know they have a pretty special legal status and level 3 seems to be a good
> choice.

I think that admin level 1 has merits.  The Akwesasne First Nation[1]
includes parts of Ontario, Quebec and New York, including a CanAm
border crossing.  Canadians and Americans must stop at border control
in Akwesasne as they pass between Canada and USA. Akwesasne citizens
are exempt, and can pass through without stopping.

Their geography is unusual and a "Jurisdictional nightmare"[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akwesasne
[2] http://www.akwesasne.ca/