America wasn’t stolen, it was conquered

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Sure, that clearly makes it better.

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The situation in most of North America was similar to northern Europe on the eve of the Germanic migrations, or western Europe as the Celts were moving across the landscape. Precisely to whom the land belonged in any given century at these periods in history was anyone’s guess. The very notion of property is a Graeco-Roman invention which most cultures found foreign until quite recently. But Europeans of the time had little chance of grasping this difference. What the Europeans did in the New World was insert themselves into a fluid power struggle which had been ongoing for millennia. Many Native American chiefs were ready to pledge allegiance to the Great ‘Chief of the English’, as a political expedient, just as various English colonies sided with this or that Native American ‘Great Chief’. Despite a few sensational cases of duplicity, most of the time, Europeans tried to buy land from Indians, just like they would buy an acre of land in England.

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Lexis Dad

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Jesus Christ

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would argue that it was settled

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c on z

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I've probably done more research on Native Americans than anybody you've ever met. How do you think they settled territorial disputes? Tens of millions of them inhabited North America before the first white man ever stepped foot here, they conquered each others land with force, the same as every other group of humans that ever existed. That's just the way it is, bleeding about it doesn't change a damn thing.

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