Oh give me a break
by ACross (2024-01-04 10:27:19)

In reply to: They took it from other Native Americans. You think the  posted by Jeash

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Just a silly position to take.

You think that history prior to 1492 was static?
by Milhouse  (2024-01-04 12:38:05)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

Of course various tribes came and went from various parts of this country as the tribes' power ebbed and flowed. There's a reason the Crow hated the Lakota Sioux, to name one of many examples. And the Crow themselves pushed the Shoshone off their land in the first place.
yeah that's what I think
by ACross  (2024-01-05 17:58:31)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

Or rather, people can just concede the point that the European settlers of this country didn't treat the Indians very well.

You morons will never get off your merrygoround of whataboutism.

But the Indians fought each other too!

You’re the guy who disputed that the Indians stole
by milhouse  (2024-01-05 21:23:31)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

land and mocked a poster for suggesting otherwise by asking if they stole it from the Flintstones or woolly mammoths. Don’t try to dodge that now.

The point is that these land acknowledgment statements are dumb and ignore that Native Americans took land under “the old rules” — that is, before about 1945, where might made right and you could take land through conquest without remorse — just like everyone else.

Go read a history book. *
by Jeash  (2024-01-04 11:04:48)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply