I'm trying to get a grasp on a better way to tag tribal administrative regions. In places like Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and the Dakotas, these are often well marked, and generally represent significant changes in legal sovereignty, anywhere from less than that of a county (such as Grand Ronde) to on par with or greater than a state (Cherokee, Sac and Fox, Osage, Pawnee, etc) or even another country (Iroquois, which straddles the US/Canadian boundary, Iroquois do their customs at the Iroquois/Canada or Iroquois/US border, everyone else at the US/Canada line). In places like Oklahoma, where many such tribal boundaries exist with a relatively high degree of sovereignty, omission of these important boundaries makes the map quite incomplete.
What's the best way to handle this situation? I understand this would result in US, Canada and Australia maps looking significantly different than commercial maps, but my understanding is we're trying to be more accurate than those maps, not look the same as them.
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