Bald Eagle and the Hekawi will be on the warpath.
NOW they tell us?
Exactly. All land on planet earth 🌎🌍🌏 is stolen land.
Their claim of owning anything they touched...from the beginning of time...is a lot of cr**. You own what you now occupy and have no rights to what you owned previously.
Also Indians: "You stole our land!"
Bald Eagle and the Hekawi will be on the warpath.
This whole thing is idiotic. The “native Americans” (people that just happened to be here when the Europeans arrived) were for the most part nomadic tribes following their food source and other essentials necessary for survival. Until the European settlers established property rights none existed. Were the tribes treated unfairly? No doubt about it. Did individual tribes “own” the land? No, they had no concept of “ownership”, merely temporary possession until a stronger tribe took over.
It wasn’t worth $1.7 trillion until it was developed.
Who decided that Finders-Keepers was the Law of Land?
Joking aside, there were over 350 treaties with indian tribes that the United States, state, and local governments breached, usually without consequence.
And the Indians stole it from somebody else.
To the victors go the spoils. Tough nut for native tribes.
Yeah, 100% ... and since we acquired the land of Colorado both from the French in the Louisiana Purchase and from the Mexicans in 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe in 1848, they should rightfully take up their claim with Mexico. But the Mexicans claim came from taking it from Spain who first laid claim to the lands in 1541. But LaSalle did claim all the lands of Colorado for France in 1682 ... so EITHER France or Spain should pay their claim. Take it up with them.
Conquered does not equal stolen.
As they say, losing wars has consequences.
For example, the Black Hills region has been inhabited by Indians for almost 10,000 years. The Arikira tribe arrive around 1500 A.D., followed by the Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa and Pawnee.
When the Lakota arrived in the 18th century they drove out the other tribes and claimed the land for themselves. The lands soon became sacred to the Lakota Sioux.
An interesting take on tribal relations is documented in R. Eli Paul's "The Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas."
Prior to the introduction of European horses and firearms, tribes mostly just counted coup. Their wars resulted in few casualties or death. After, their battles became much more bloody.
They came here from Asia. No human was “indigenous” to this Hemisphere. Conservatives need to just start saying this out loud and ridiculing these absurd claims.
They conveniently overlook how various tribes “stole” land from each other. Where many tribes were in the nineteenth century is not where they started out. And they waged war and inflicted depredations and slavery on each other. Could the conflicts between whites and Indians have turned out differently? Maybe. But it’s a very complex history and and there is plenty of dirt to go around, just as in history in general.
Someone will find the not-native behind this effort. You know there is one.
Come and take it back...
Yes, who did the last tribe steal it from?