Actually, I believe I'm a mixture of several ethnic origins--including a drop of two of Powatan. Yep, a lot (a lot, not all) of white people were real a-holes in conquering this country. But some of the blame must go to the Indian for allowing it to happen. There was a real opportunity, when Tecumseh and his brother "The Prophet" were trying to organize the tribes in to one mighty force in the old Northwest territory back in the early 1800s, for the Indians to really open up a can of whoop-ass on the whites. There were also ample opportunites afterwards as well. But, instead, tribal hatreds and mistrust of one another ran too deep, and, so like the arabs, the tribes fought against themselves as much as they did against white settlement.