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>I'm not harping on it. The empire was created from native lands, and the US and Canada still continue to occupy these lands. We are still empires. The passage of time doesn't erase this. I betcha if you gave any organized native group a chance to cede from either country, they would do it.

But if you go back far enough, most of today's countries were the result of conquering other neighbourhood tribes.

As regards secession by natives, the Inuit of Quebec had a chance back at the last referendum. They had their own and chose Canada.

And in the States it seems they don't really 'need' to secede. I read that the U.S. government itself has been working on storing spent nuclear materials on a reservation, the basis being that as sovereign territory the laws of the U.S. regarding nuclear materials do not apply. Imagine!