I wans't really "counting them out" per se. The point is it is sort of fascinating how native americans felt genuine loyalty to our country, a need to put their lives on the line to defend a nation ultimately did encroach upon and overrun their ancestral homeland.
It's more fascinating in light of the problems America and western europe are facing from illegal immigrants, especially from but not limited to the islamic countries. How is it that native americans, constantly at odds with invading european colonials, manage to obtain some sense of loyalty to america as was built by the descendents of euorpean invaders, let the new generations of illegals feel none, demanding more welfare, more jobs, more handouts, more damn near everything, offering in return nothing except increased crime rates, nonstop hostility and symapthy to terrorists who are trying to wipe us out.
They may have the sense that America is really their country and worth fighting for. I'm just glad they do. I can't figure it out either but they're good people and deserve much better treatment than they've gotten in the past. My daughter-in-law is a Tlingit indian from the Yukon territory (they live in AK) and her family was treated very badly. Her mother and others in that family were put into boarding schools and it was not a good experience for them. Mxxx