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CloudDeckMedia
The devil is in the details. If a house at 1234 Main Street is taken from its current non-native owner and returned to the tribe, who pays, how much, and who decides what amount is correct? The US government would have an incentive to minimize the value it has to pay, financially harming the homeowner who wasn't alive 150 years ago. When the tribe becomes the owner 1234 Main Street, it will be exempt from property taxes, placing additional burdens on schools. Should native children be allowed to attend those non-native public schools free of charge, or should they attend their own tribal public schools. Would those schools be defined as an unconstitutional, "separate but equal" type of school (confirmed in Plessy v. Ferguson, but overturned in Brown v. Board of Education), or does it not matter because a native school is part of a sovereign nation unrelated to the US government? Macroeconomically, thousands (millions?) of now-"homeless" families are looking for houses to buy, driving prices sky high, meaning that their cash settlement amount (remember - the equity they had in their houses after repaying the mortgage and closing costs) won't buy them a comparable house to what they had before. Further, because the mortgage and title industries were almost wiped out by these changes, lenders now require much more equity in future mortgage loans, so only the wealthiest non-natives could afford houses. That suppresses demand, driving prices down. But since non-whites wouldn't want to buy tribal land, they would have to move to or establish new towns & cities beyond tribal claims, but not until ALL disputes could be determined across the US, and that may not be known for a half-century or longer.
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