Maybe they would rather have a visit from the General George Crook Reenactors?
This whole BS victimology is why these "leaders" want any real history to be colored by PC guilt.
Consider that the indians who sold manhattan to the dutch thought THEY were ripping the europeans.
Consider that the indians had no concept of land ownership. (that is first year property law)
In stead of whining like the french, these indians should have taken this to facilitate more interaction. They COULD have used this chance to make the public aware fo their existence in the 21st century.
What? Civilized them? Brought them into the 18th century? Which one?
Another article from the Daily Republic in Mitchell SD.http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&ArticleID=10953&SectionID=3&SubSectionID=83&FCID=171634&FCN=Odis%20Cosgrove
Sorry losers!
I'd say the Nez Perce (sp?) have the best basis for a gripe.
They kept the Lewis & Clark party alive...and later (during Chief Joseph times)
were sent south to Tonkawa, OK (to keep them from trying a run to Canada again).
Now that was a fair big of true cruelty...putting a bunch of decent folks from
the Oregon area into a summer-time (and sometimes winter-time) hell-hole.
(I should know, I grew up 10 miles away from Tonkawa.)
I've heard that enough of them died and complained that even the Indian agents let them
return home after a few years.