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Disgusting.

From what we know from oral histories and archaeology, these 'First Peoples' almost certainly were not first, and almost certainly originally took the lands in question by force themselves.

Seattle is named after a Chief who became famous and respected because he thwarted a slave raid by the coastal BC peoples.

Here in SE AK the dominant tribal entity is the Tlingit nation, but that wasn't the case prior to the 1500s: they swept out from the BC interior and displaced, conquered, and/or enslaved the Haida and Tsimshian peoples.

Pick a spot in North America and I guarantee you can find record of bloody tribal wars over it. Same as earlier times in Asia or Europe, and unfortunately current times in parts of Africa. Human beings are human beings, regardless of race, and unless brought up in the ways of civilization they will do horrible, tribal things to each other.

I'm glad that we live in a time where such immoral conquest is considered, well, immoral, but the fact is that the "First Nations" were conquerors themselves. But in the end they were conquerors who didn't have written language, domestic animals, or the wheel, and generally lived in the Stone Age, who ended up facing off against armies with Industrial Age logistics and technology. Of course they f*cking lost. It was the only possible outcome.

And everyone's better off for the fact that the peoples who considered killing, raping, torturing, scalping, and enslaving to be virtues got crushed by the advance of actual civilization.