glyph 639: governance . Catawba, American Indian Tribe ... Special Economic Zone, Digital, CDEZ ... Tom W. Bell, Joseph McKinney ... South Carolina ... Texas, a Spindletop moment? ... journal of special jurisdictions . book by Bell: nation state to stateless nation

The essential story is this (second paragraph of Bell's paper):

The Catawba once thrived as warriors, hunters, farmers, craftspeople (specializing in pottery and baskets), and traders. Then, the Europeans came. The territory and population of the Catawba shrank as those of the United States grew. The Catawba suffered devastating epidemics, dispersion to other tribes and distant regions, abject poverty, and knavery and neglect by colonial, state, and federal governments. They never gave up, though. The Catawba rewon their standing as a sovereign nation and now aim to expand into an entirely new kind of territory-a place where digital assets, e-banks, crypto-currencies, non-fungible tokens, and other fintech innovations roam free. In that virtual wilderness, where the power of terrestrial sovereigns falters, the Catawba Indian Nation have established a trading post they call the Catawba Digital Economic Zone (CDEZ).

Once there was no financial power in Texas. Then Spindletop changed everything. Is it conceivable that something like newly won sovereignty for special zones hosted by American Indian Tribes might be a socio-economic Spindletop? Out of nowhere, from ashes long thought to be cold and forgotten, comes a Phoenix? -ls

Your Next Government: From the Nation State to the Stateless Nation
Tom W. Bell, Cambridge University Press, 2017
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May 15, 2023