Much of the land we purchased, actually. For example, the Lousiana Purchase was like almost half of our current country, and we bought it from the French.
Yes, but we did have to fight the Indian wars to establish westward expansion. Also, many wars have been fought over ownership of lands—not with the inhabitants of said lands, but with other countries that want ownership of said land.
My main point is that all the lands on this earth have been “stolen” at some point, some many times, throughout history. If we’re going to dissolve the US based on this delusion that this country was “stolen” from the natives than every country better start working on returning their land to the prior people they “stole” it from.
Also, we pioneered, settled, cultivated, and tamed America, while Indians were busy scalping, butchering, raping, and enslaving each other. No one should apologize for that, EVER. It's how the world works. Weak backwards societies get conquered by superior ones.
I agree mostly, but I live in a plains Indian state and there are a few tribes from this area that actually made an attempt to assimilate and our government did F them over. There were vast differences between the tribes, but our government treated them like a monolith and lumped the good in with the bad.
No one ever really cares about the abomination that are reservations except when the left wants to utilize Natives as political pawns. However, reservations are the ultimate example of why socialism & governmental control sucks; they are actually an argument AGAINST what the left wants.
No one is stopping them from leaving the reservation and becoming a productive member of society. It’s the same victim mentality we are currently seeing.
“Based on the ‘stealing’ of land”. First, we didn’t steal, we conquered, but besides that point, this is literally why/how most countries exist today.
Much of the land we purchased, actually. For example, the Lousiana Purchase was like almost half of our current country, and we bought it from the French.
Yes, but we did have to fight the Indian wars to establish westward expansion. Also, many wars have been fought over ownership of lands—not with the inhabitants of said lands, but with other countries that want ownership of said land.
My main point is that all the lands on this earth have been “stolen” at some point, some many times, throughout history. If we’re going to dissolve the US based on this delusion that this country was “stolen” from the natives than every country better start working on returning their land to the prior people they “stole” it from.
ALL COUNTRIES
Also, we pioneered, settled, cultivated, and tamed America, while Indians were busy scalping, butchering, raping, and enslaving each other. No one should apologize for that, EVER. It's how the world works. Weak backwards societies get conquered by superior ones.
I agree mostly, but I live in a plains Indian state and there are a few tribes from this area that actually made an attempt to assimilate and our government did F them over. There were vast differences between the tribes, but our government treated them like a monolith and lumped the good in with the bad.
No one ever really cares about the abomination that are reservations except when the left wants to utilize Natives as political pawns. However, reservations are the ultimate example of why socialism & governmental control sucks; they are actually an argument AGAINST what the left wants.
Tribalism and Communism are perhaps America's chief enemies right now. (I guess that's some 'problematic verbiage,' but I stand by it. lol)
Oh, I agree. If they think how we started the US is bad, they should see how other conquered civilizations were treat!
No one is stopping them from leaving the reservation and becoming a productive member of society. It’s the same victim mentality we are currently seeing.