To begin, I will tell you that I am atrue American..I served two tours in SE Asia in 1968 and 1969 and am proud to have served MY country.
I am also a native people of this land...a member of the Ani-yun-wiya nation (known as Cherokee).
With this in mind, I ask you...If China or Russia or any other country for that matter landed on our shores to take over...would you fight them? Would you try to adapt? Would you slowly give up where you lived and what you had experienced for your lifetime?
Please answer my questions and think about what you say....
If you were a stone age people that was merely a tribe of people instead of being an actual country like a Sweden or Egypt or Peru, then you would probably resist at first just like you did when other tribes tried to move in, or the way they resisted you when you were taking their land from them.
In the end you would deal with the daily reality of Indian life for thousands of years, you took if you were stronger, and you abandoned when you were weaker.
“With this in mind, I ask you...If China or Russia or any other country for that matter landed on our shores to take over...would you fight them? Would you try to adapt? Would you slowly give up where you lived and what you had experienced for your lifetime?”
But Boonie, no ‘country’ invaded the Indians. It was done a bit at a time, one group of immigrants at a time, until the Indian was overwhelmed, his culture and beliefs destroyed, his land taken. It took decades. History IS repeating itself. We are the current indigenous tribe. Granted, it’s not being done at the point of a military gun as was done to our Cherokee ancestors, yet.
Why do you feel those who fought back against the French / British and the Indians should not be honored?