So, you are saying that hordes of people leaving California, with pockets full of equity money, moving back across the U.S. buying up everything in their path isn't anything like "manifest destiny"? Investors haven't raised home and rent prices wherever their greedy hands have touched?
It was not "warlike tribes" that caused the "Trail of Tears" to Oklahoma. Then recliamed it after oil was found. Nor did the "warlike tribes" concede the Black Hills and then retake them (re: Custer) when gold was discovered.
There were peaceful and warlike tribes. All kinds of tribes. They were primitive. No present day Indians, want to live in the primitive cultures that their ancestors did.
The casino Indians live more like the modern culture than the Indians of two hundred years ago.
The culture of the Europeans has evolved considerably over the last three hundred years. It is the ability to adapt to changing conditions that gives this culture a chance to survive. The Indian cultures did not have the time, nor were they willing to modernize. Modernize is a judgemental term. Anyone not willing to recognize this culture as a modernization (major improvement) over the Indian culture is just being argumentative.
Even if the racists manage to eliminate every last one of the Euproean descendants, our culture will continue to evolve as it is more efficient. The patent office, capitalism, freedom of religion, private ownership of property, the right to bear arms, states rights over federal government, public and private education and good beer. All these rights are under assault, but without them, the culture we bought over from Europe would not have succeeded to form a nation that people all over the world want to join.
American culture and America is the envy of the world. People do not like us because we are so much more successful than them. Our existance threatens every dictator and socialist government in the world as their people know there is a better way.
PS: After General Custer was eliminated, in a violent battle, the Indians were never again able to mount a sustained battle. In effect, the Indians ability to fight a war was massacred at the battle of the Greasy Grass.