sovereign

He described this kind of man as a sovereign male.

Today, they still don’t have formal federal recognition as a sovereign nation.

Until finally, in 1993, the U.S. government recognized all Alaska Native Entities, meaning all of those corporations, as officially sovereign governments, with the same protections, powers, and limitations as any other federally-recognized Native nation.

In 2010, the U.S. said they wouldn’t accept the tribe’s passports as legit for re-entry because they didn’t recognize the Haudenosaunee as a fully sovereign nation.