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To: drzz
I don't think people are denying that Native Americans had the right to fight for their land. I think some people question whether we had the right to start a fight to take it.

Is it true that, when two groups want the same land, the group with the greater fire power has the right to to acquire it? Was there a moral component to our fight to take that land? Or is it simply part of life that might makes right and there's not much more we can say about it.
10 posted on 04/13/2007 7:28:51 AM PDT by HaveHadEnough
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To: HaveHadEnough

All what I say is that history cannot be studied with overall vision - like looking on the history of the West without taking a story and then an other.

This documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKeTsG2JpQA is just telling us: look at the FACTS ? Should the Americans say apologies to every Cheyenne because of Washita ? No way.


13 posted on 04/13/2007 7:39:47 AM PDT by drzz
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To: HaveHadEnough

Well you know as brutal as it sounds it is exactly that might makes right.


43 posted on 04/13/2007 8:24:28 AM PDT by PierreLegrand
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