Mrs. TheThirdRuffian is 100% born-on-reservation Mescalero Apache.
She has some issues with some of the back-stabbing and re-trading that went on by European immigrants, but overall considers being dragged from paganism to the modern world by a relatively (relatively) beneign invader pretty good.
Of course, her tribe kept their land, largely due to Henry repeating rifles, disciplined troops (many civil war vets) and moutainous, forested, land which caused the calvary to decide to “go around,” but that’s yet another discussion.
She has some issues with some of the back-stabbing and re-trading that went on by European immigrants, but overall considers being dragged from paganism to the modern world by a relatively (relatively) beneign invader pretty good.
No less than one third of my ancestors were forcibly shipped to America in chains, then spent generations working the southern plantations as slaves.
Guess what? It's ancient history, and I didn't personally suffer their tragic lives. I can't complain about an injury that I didn't personally receive. What I did receive, is full membership at birth, into the world's freest, and most successful nation. That is all that truly matters.
Just as we should not condemn the son for the sins of the father, neither should we succor the son for his father's pain and suffering.