[matt4077]

Isn't that the exact problems that Indian reservations were set up to solve? A kind of community-administered perpetual land grant, basically.

It seems that – some problems within the tribal administrations non-withstanding – the external legal relationships are solved pretty well within that framework.

[RA_Fisher]

What you're describing is forced (w/ threat of violence) migration and I don't think it's easily justified. Care to take a shot?

[matt4077]

I was talking about today's reservations as a legal vehicle to allow perpetual group ownership & administration of land, so as to preserve it for a culture. I may have forgotten the part where, once the structure is set up, owners would voluntarily add their property if their shared this objective.