Please see my reply to Al. Generally I agree with you but I don't here. Although not entirely unsympathetic, the history you mention was 150 years and longer ago. It's no longer a valid excuse IMO.

People have always migrated. Is it realistic to think a few hundred thousand Indians, however many there were, were going to have a country this big to themselves forever? It's like thinking Australia would still be populated solely by aborigines.

>I think the Tribes are trying to make a point - that the beer companies are going out of their way to make alcohol available in a location that is convenient for consumption by the Tribes. In some ways, it's no different from the liquor stores on the county lines between wet and dry counties in other states. Unfortunately, we're talking about a group of people who have been historically 'left behind' in almost all of the forward steps of 'civilization'.
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>Please understand, I don't want to get into any discussion of "there's nothing stopping them from 'joining' the American society" or anything like that. I think history will pretty much blow many such arguments out of the water and, let's do remember, their civilization was here first.
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>>I think the lawsuit is without merit - like how you gonna sue someone for selling you a beer when you're the one who wanted to buy it?
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>>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46329414/ns/business-retail/#.TzR1kxxA9fA
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>>...and if I ever decide to open a liquor store I know where to do it now.